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Labour Market Statistics, February 2014

For October to December 2013:

  • The percentage of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work (the employment rate) was 72.1%. The employment rate is up 0.3 percentage points from July to September 2013 and up 0.6 from a year earlier. There were 30.15 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 193,000 from July to September 2013 and up 396,000 from a year earlier.
  • The percentage of the economically active population aged 16 and over who were unemployed (the unemployment rate) was 7.2%. The unemployment rate is down 0.4 percentage points from July to September 2013 and down 0.6 from a year earlier. There were 2.34 million unemployed people aged 16 and over, down 125,000 from July to September 2013 and down 161,000 from a year earlier.
  • The percentage of people aged from 16 to 64 who were economically inactive (the economic inactivity rate) was 22.1%, little changed from July to September 2013 and from a year earlier. There were 8.93 million economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64, little changed from July to September 2013 and from a year earlier.
  • Total pay rose by 1.1% compared with October to December 2012. Regular pay rose by 1.0% over the same period.

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