Our new analysis looks at unpaid carers from 31 March to 25 April 2021.
More women (57%) provided unpaid care than men (43%) – this includes giving unpaid help to somebody with physical or mental illness or age-related problems ow.ly/QpR250F7aY8
More than half of unpaid carers provided 5 hours or fewer a week.
There was no significant difference in the number of hours worked for men and women, or the type of care provided ow.ly/mRxK50F7b4n
The most common care activities were
▪️ being available if needed
▪️ helping around the home or garden
▪️ providing company
▪️ accompanying on errands
A larger proportion of unpaid carers were worried about the effects that the #COVID19 pandemic was having on their life (63%) compared with non-carers (56%) ow.ly/MpVf50F7bcm
57% of unpaid carers had received their first vaccine dose, and 20% had received both doses.
Fewer non-carers had received one dose (44%) or both doses (16%). However, on average unpaid carers were older (52 years) than non-carers (47 years) ow.ly/zzUh50F7bll
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We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.