Release

Understanding unemployment: what role does ethnicity and disability play?

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Release date: 10 January 2024 9:30am

Summary

Our interactive analysis of England and Wales Census 2021 data seeks to examine how unemployment rates vary at the intersection of ethnicity and disability.

Using Census 2021, this analysis considers experiences of unemployment across 38 intersectional groups; the 19 tick-box ethnic groups in combination with disability status, disabled or non-disabled. The analysis adjusts for factors associated with unemployment such as age, sex and geography.

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Contact details

Name

Matthew Minifie, Charlotte Standeven and Sarah Wood

Email

equalities@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1329 444256

About the data

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This release includes data from Census 2021.

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest