The number of employees on payroll rose by 241,000 in August 2021; this took the total just past its pre-pandemic peak ow.ly/nJRX50G9pEf
Weekly hours worked in the UK increased on the previous quarter, to 1.01 billion hours in May to July 2021, coinciding with the relaxing of coronavirus lockdown measures.
After inflation, average pay saw annual growth of 6.0% including bonuses in May to July 2021, while excluding bonuses it was up 4.5%.
These rises are partly the result of statistical factors, and the underlying picture suggests more modest pay rises ow.ly/yKLX50G9pJH
There were an estimated 1.03 million job vacancies in June to August 2021, up from 764,000 in the previous three months.
Early figures for August show there were more than 1.1 million vacancies that month for the first time ever ow.ly/ImRv50G9pM0
Total public sector employment in June 2021 was up 131,000, or 2.4%, on the previous June, largely because of the ongoing response to the #COVID19 pandemic ow.ly/JNxJ50G9pNV
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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.