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16% of Households Unemployed

15.9 per cent of households are not working, according to the latest labour force statistics. This equates to 2.00 million working-age households, and the figure is up 0.1 percentage points from a year earlier and down 0.7 percentage points from five years ago. The rate of worklessness for lone parent households with dependent children was 41.3 per cent, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous year and down 3.6 percentage points from five years earlier. The rate of worklessness for couple households with dependent children is much lower - 5 per cent. In autumn 2005, the proportion of working-age people living in workless households was highest for the Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic group, at 27.4 per cent, and lowest for the Indian ethnic group, at 6.9 per cent.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .