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The employment rate was 71.4%, down 0.2 percentage points on the quarter. There were 29.71 million employed people, down 43,000 on the quarter.

Part of the ONS Measuring National Well-being Programme, this article focuses on the economy and describes how the UK has fared relative to other countries.

This report examines the characteristics of households with property debt. For example, it compares property debt by region and looks at the self-reported burden of this debt.

The UK’s deficit on seasonally adjusted trade in goods and services was £3.1 billion in March 2013.  The deficit on trade in goods was £9.1 billion. The surplus on trade in services was estimated at £5.9 billion.

The total volume of construction output rose by 12.1% comparing March 2013 with February 2013, in constant prices, not seasonally adjusted.