New analysis from various data sources shows how #COVID19 has impacted spending habits and attitudes to socialising over Christmas 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019 ow.ly/2tge50HBbSq
In the week ending 23 December 2021, the percentages of people testing positive for #COVID19 were at:
▪️ 3.71% in England
▪️ 2.52% in Wales
▪️ 2.59% in Northern Ireland
▪️ 2.57% in Scotland
Infection levels were lower in the week leading up to Christmas 2020.
In December 2020 and 2021, retail sales volumes were above pre-pandemic levels. Compared with December 2019, sales volumes were up
▪️ 3% in December 2020
▪️ 2% in December 2021.
In the first two weeks of December 2021, the seven-day average estimate of UK seated diners exceeded 2019 levels, but not in London - according to @OpenTableUK.
This likely reflects the high #COVID19 infection rates seen in the city during the Christmas period.
In December 2021, 63% of adults said they had planned to visit (or had already visited) family and friends in their homes.
51% said they planned to have (or had already had) family and friends visit their home over the Christmas season.
Although shopping and socialising trends suggest people were going out more during the Christmas holiday period in 2021 compared with 2020, people still expressed concern about #COVID19 and attitudes to the future.
At the end of 2021, the proportion of people who felt it will take more than a year for life to return to normal was higher than at the end of 2020 (35% compared with 20%), according to our Opinions and Lifestyle Survey ow.ly/2tge50HBbSq
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Data collected between 4 and 8 January 2022 show 79% of individuals followed self-isolation requirements after testing positive for #COVID19.
This is broadly in line with the levels reported for September (78%), November (75%) and December 2021 (74%) ow.ly/VK8150HEfa5
Almost half (49%) of respondents were concerned about the new #COVID19 Omicron variant.
10% of respondents reported testing positive for the new Omicron variant, and the majority (83%) reported that they did not know if they had been infected with Omicron.
Of those who were not retired, 25% said they lost income as a result of isolating, and 17% said that self-isolating meant they are likely to lose their job or miss out on work.
We’ve updated our ethnic contrasts in deaths involving #COVID19 covering the period since the rollout of the vaccines started in Dec 2020.
The risk of COVID19 death has continued to be higher in most ethnic minority groups than in the White British group ow.ly/aNHa50HEcN6
Throughout the period between 8 Dec 2020 and 1 Dec 2021, the rate of death involving #COVID19 was consistently highest for the Bangladeshi ethnic group, followed by the Pakistani ethnic group.
Since the start of the third wave (from 13 June 2021 onwards), the rate of death involving #COVID19 in the Bangladeshi group was 4.4 and 5.2 times greater than White British for men and women respectively ow.ly/aNHa50HEcN6
We’ve published the first in a series of articles examining earning outcomes at age 25, relative to the living wage, for people who had free school meals (FSM) and those who did not ➡️ ow.ly/lM4e50HCeKr
23% of young people who were free school meal (FSM) recipients when attending school in England were earning above the living wage by the age of 25.
This is compared with 43.5% of those who did not receive FSM.
Female recipients of free school meals (FSM) were less likely than male FSM recipients to earn above the living wage at the age of 25, at 18.2% compared with 27.8%.
A similar imbalance was seen among non-FSM recipients (39.9% of young women compared with 47.5% of young men).