Treasury written question – answered at on 11 January 2005.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many women resident in Bedford and Kempston had paid jobs in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. Patrick Hall, dated
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment. I am replying in his absence. (207223)
The statistics available are from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and relate to the twelve-month periods ending February 1997 and February 2004. In these periods the numbers of women in employment, who were resident in the Bedford Parliamentary Constituency, were respectively 21,000 and 25,000.
For this purpose, people aged 16 or over are classed as in employment by the LFS, if they have done at least one hour of paid work (as an employee or self-employed) in the week prior to their LFS interview, or if they have a job that they are temporarily away from. Employment also includes people working in an unpaid capacity in a family business or those who are on job-related government supported training programmes, but the LFS samples for the periods quoted included no women in these categories resident in the Bedford Constituency.
These estimates from the LFS are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.
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