Unemployment: Bexley
Cabinet Office
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
David Evennett (- Shadow Minister, Universities and Skills; Bexleyheath & Crayford, Conservative)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people aged between 16 and 24 years in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley were not in education, employment and training in (i) May 1997 and (ii) each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Kevin Brennan (Minister of State (also in the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills), Department for Children, Schools and Families; Cardiff West, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
Table 1 as follows shows the number and percentage of people aged(1) 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET) in the local education authority (LEA) of Bexley from 2000 to 2008. These estimates are from the Annual Population Survey.
Complete training and education data are unavailable prior to 2000 so estimates of people not in education, employment or education are not available for 1997.
Due to small sample sizes, estimates cannot be provided for areas smaller than LEAs such as constituencies. Please note that these estimates are subject to sampling variability and should be viewed in conjunction with their confidence intervals (CIs), which indicate how accurate an estimate is. For example, a CI of +/- 0.6pp means that the sampling variability ranges from 0.6pp above the estimate and 0.6pp below the estimate. Confidence intervals have been provided in table 1 as follows.
| Table 1: People aged( 1)( ) 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training in Bexley | |||
| Number | Percentage | Confidence intervals | |
| 2000(2) | 2,000 | 12 | +/- 7.7 |
| 2001(2) | 3,000 | 13 | +/- 7.4 |
| 2002(2) | 3,000 | 11 | +/- 5.6 |
| 2003(2) | 2,000 | 9 | +/- 6.4 |
| 2004 | 2,000 | 8 | +/- 6.1 |
| 2005 | 2,000 | 7 | +/- 5.2 |
| 2006 | 4,000 | 17 | +/- 8.3 |
| 2007 | 3,000 | 12 | +/- 6.7 |
| 2008 | 3,000 | 14 | +/- 7.6 |
| (1) Age used is the respondents' academic age, which is their age at the preceding 31 August. (2 )Estimates prior to 2004 are from the Annual Local Area Labour Force Survey, the predecessor to the Annual Population Survey. It covers the period from March in the given year to February in the next. Note: Numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand. | |||