Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 1 December 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children in (a) England, (b) the East of England and (c) Bedford constituency were living in families with no parents in employment in October each year from 2000 to 2010.
I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated November 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many children in a) England b) East of England and c) Bedford Constituency were living in families with no parents in employment in October each year from 2000 to 2010. (26539)
The figures requested come from the Annual Population Survey (APS) household datasets. These are currently available for 2004 to 2009. The attached table shows estimates for England and East of England for these years.
It is not possible to provide reliable estimates for Bedford constituency because of small sample sizes.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This is captured in a confidence interval, defined by lower and upper bounds, such that the interval formed between the bounds would contain the true value of 95% of all possible samples.
Table: Children( 1) living in families with no parent in employment in England and East of England | ||||
Thousand | ||||
January to December | Estimate | Lower bound( 2) | Upper bound( 2) | |
England | 2004 | 1,639 | 1,591 | 1,687 |
2005 | 1,630 | 1,582 | 1,678 | |
2006 | 1,645 | 1,596 | 1,693 | |
2007 | 1,613 | 1,564 | 1,662 | |
2008 | 1,670 | 1,620 | 1,721 | |
2009 | 1,707 | 1,655 | 1,759 | |
East of England | 2004 | 126 | 111 | 141 |
2005 | 124 | 109 | 140 | |
2006 | 128 | 112 | 144 | |
2007 | 130 | 114 | 147 | |
2008 | 141 | 123 | 158 | |
2009 | 133 | 115 | 150 | |
(1 )Children refers to children under 16. (2) 95% confidence interval which means that from all samples possible there would be 95% certainty that the true estimate would lie within the lower and upper bounds. Source: APS household dataset |
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