Night-time workers

You asked

Please provide the information for the following;

1. The total number of people in Yorkshire and Humberside who work, in whole or in part, at night for the following years:

   2005
   2010
   2011
   2012
   2013
   2014
   2015
   2016

2. The professions in Yorkshire and Humberside with the highest prevalence of night-time shifts.

We said

Thank you for your query regarding night workers in Yorkshire and The Humber.

Information on night working is collected on the Labour Force Survey, however we do not regularly produce any outputs using this variable. Therefore the requested information is not readily available from published outputs.

Although we do not produce regular analysis on night workers, you can request an ad-hoc analysis be produced to give this detailed information from our Social Surveys Division. Information on how to make such a request are given on our website.

As explained on the website, such ad-hoc analysis requests may incur a charge;

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/statistics/requestingstatistics/makingarequest

As this information is already available to you via this route we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. s.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.