Commenting on today’s labour market data, ONS Director of Economic Statistics Darren Morgan said: (1/4)
Continuing, Darren said:
Darren added: (3/4)
Darren concluded: (4/4)
The number of employees on payroll rose by 356,000 in June 2021.
This was still 206,000 fewer than in February 2020, before the pandemic ow.ly/Yfwt50FwlKz
981.4 million hours were worked each week in March to May 2021.
This is up 23.3 million hours on the previous three months, reflecting the relaxation of #coronavirus restrictions, but still below pre-pandemic levels ow.ly/gdda50FwlON
Average pay after inflation in March to May 2021 saw annual growth of 5.6% including bonuses and 4.9% excluding bonuses, partly due to fewer lower-paid jobs and comparison with early pandemic months in 2020.
There were 862,000 job vacancies in March to May 2021, now above the pre-pandemic level.
Sectors such as “arts and entertainment” and “accommodation and food services activities” have seen strong rises ow.ly/ugMD50FwlRn
We've also published a new blog post explaining the effects of #COVID19 on our average weekly earnings data as part of our labour market release ow.ly/qHuE50FwlSL
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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.