Commenting on today’s labour market data, ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said⬇️
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The number of employees on payroll continued to grow strongly in November 2021, with all regions now above pre-pandemic levels ow.ly/ln6N50Ha59J
Weekly hours worked increased 17,600 on the previous quarter, to 1.024 billion hours in August to October 2021.
However, this is a smaller increase than in previous periods and is still below pre-pandemic levels ow.ly/zCuy50Ha5cy
After inflation, average pay saw annual growth of 1.7% including bonuses in August to October 2021, while excluding bonuses it was up 1.0%.
Temporary factors seen earlier in the year have now largely worked their way out of the data ow.ly/TrLt50Ha5gx
There were an average of 1.219 million job vacancies across September to November 2021, up from 1.035 million the previous three months ow.ly/941t50Ha5h5
There were 5.70 million public sector employees for September 2021, up 22,000 on June 2021 and up 137,000 on September 2020.
The increase from a year ago is largely due to the response of the NHS and the Civil Service to the pandemic ow.ly/2fet50Ha5lb
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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.