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- Reviewing progress
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- Indicator 41
Creating sustainable communities and a fairer world
41. Workless households*
Population living in workless households (a) children (b) working age, 1992 to 2008
| Workless households since: | 1990 |
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2003 |
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- The percentage of working-age people who live in households where no-one works has fallen gradually since the mid 1990s, from 13.2 per cent in 1997 to 11.4 per cent in 2008.
- The percentage of children living in working age households where no-one works has fallen in a similar way, from 18.8 per cent in 1997 to 15.4 per cent in 2008.
- Data for 1996 and before are not strictly comparable but suggest a decline in workless households since the early nineties.
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Updated: 30 July 2009