Theme : Work & Poverty

Themes are used in the Vision of Britain system to organise all our statistical data into a small number of broad categories, often identified by icons on the web site.

Identifier:

T_WK

Name:

Work & Poverty

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

This theme is concerned with who was able to find work, and the consequences for those who could not. The census is not the ideal source to study these questions, because it is taken only every ten years, and we plan to add additional information from other sources such as the records of National Insurance and the Poor Law system, and their modern equivalents, Job Seekers Allowance and Income Support.

For now, our only non-census data here comes from the trade union-run welfare system that laid the foundations for the National Insurance system before the 1914-18 war. One strength of census data on unemployment is that it is relatively little affected by the changing rules of benefit systems, although we do add numbers on government training schemes to our figures for 1991.

For most of the twentieth century, the unemployment rate among women was of limited value. Many women were not involved in paid work, and even those with jobs had problems claiming benefits when they lost them. We therefore concentrate instead on the "activity rate", which measures what proportion of women were economically active, either in work or looking for it.

Theme " Work & Poverty " is contained within:

The Database, which everything else is contained within:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme " Work & Poverty " contains:

Rates, for mapping and for comparing areas :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_CENSUS_MALE_UNEM	Male Unemployment
R_CENSUS_MALE_SELFEMPL	Male self-employment
R_CENSUS_FEM_ACTIVE	Female Activity Rate
R_CLAIMANT_COUNT	Claimant Count Unemployment
R_WELFARE	Percentage of Total Population on Poor Relief
R_OUTDOOR_PAUPER	Outdoor Poor Relief
R_AB_MALE_PAUPER	Poor Relief to Able-Bodied Males
R_OUT_ABM_PAUPER_NOTSICK	Outdoor Poor Relief to Able-Bodied Males "in Health"

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_CENSUS_ACTIVE_GEN	Economically Active by Sex
N_WORKING_AGE	All of Working Age, by Sex
N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT	Percentage Unemployed by Category of the Insured (Adjusted)
N_CENSUS_EMPL	Census Unemployment by Sex
N_INSURED_UNEM	Claimant Count Unemployment
N_INSURED_UNEM_TOT	All persons insured against unemployment
N_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT	Percentage Unemployed by Category of the Insured
N_CLAIMANT_UNEM_AGESEX	Numbers Unemployed by Category
N_WEEKLY_WAGES	Weekly Wages Rates for Selected Occupations (Pence)
N_HOURLY_WAGES	Hourly Wages Rates for Selected Occupations (Pence)
N_WELFARE_POP	Population totals for computing welfare rates
N_WELFARE_TOT	Total number of persons receiving welfare assistance
N_PAUPER_IN_OUT	Able-bodied paupers by gender & age
N_ABLEBODIED_AGESEX	Able-bodied paupers by gender & age
N_PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE	Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_CENSUS_ACTIVE	Economically Active
V_WORKING_AGE	All of Working Age
V_CENSUS_EMPL	Census Unemployment
V_INSURED_UNEM	Insured Unemployment
V_INSURED_UNEM_TOT	All persons covered by unemployment insurance
V_NAT_INS_AGESEX	Categories of Persons within National Insurance
V_WAGE_OCCUP	Occupations reporting wage rates
V_WELFARE_POP	Total population as listed in welfare reports
V_WELFARE_TOT	Total receiving welfare assistance
V_PAUPER_IN_OUT	Pauper categories: Indoor & Outdoor
V_PAUPER_AGESEX	Pauper categories: Men, Women & Children
V_PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE	Able-bodied male pauper categories: Sick & Other