Share of households where all members have never worked in the UK 1996-2023

Published by D. Clark, Sep 15, 2023
Approximately 1.2 percent of workless households in the United Kingdom were comprised entirely of inhabitants who had never worked in 2023. The peak for this type of workless household was in 2011, when it was 1.8 percent, while in 1996 it was less than one percent.

Percentage of workless households in the United Kingdom where all members have never worked from 1996 to 2023

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Release date

August 2023

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

1996 to 2023

Age group

16 years and older

Supplementary notes

* A workless household is a household that includes at least one person aged 16 to 64 where no-one aged 16 or over is in employment.
A household is defined as having never worked if all members aged 16 years or more are currently not in employment and state that they have never had paid work (apart from casual or holiday work, or the job that they are waiting to begin).

Figures taken from April-June for each year.

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