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Contents Table Page Acknowledgements xiii Units of measurement xiv Introduction xv PART ONE Area Explanatory notes 2 1.1 Area of the United Kingdom, 2004 3 1 PART TWO Parliamentary 2.1 Parliamentary elections 6 elections 2.2 Parliamentary by-elections 6 2 2.3 Devolved assembly elections (Wales and Scotland) 7 2.4 Devolved assembly elections (Northern Ireland) 7 Explanatory Notes 10 International 3.1 Gross public expenditure on aid (GPEX) 12 development 3.2 Total bilateral gross public expenditure on aid (GPEX): by main recipient 3 countries and regions 12 Explanatory notes 14 Defence 4.1 UK Defence expenditure 18 4.2 Intake of UK regular forces from civilian life: by service 18 4 4.3 Formation of the UK armed forces 19 4.4 Outflow of UK regular forces: by service 19 4.5 UK Defence: service manpower strengths 20 4.6 UK Defence: civilian manpower strengths 21 4.7 Family accommodation and defence land holdings 21 4.8 Location of UK service personnel 22 4.9 UK regular forces: deaths 22 4.10 Strength of uniformed UK medical staff 23 4.11 UK Defence services and the civilian community 23 PART THREE Explanatory notes 26 Population 5.1 Population summary: by country and sex 29 and vital 5.2 Population changes: by country 30 5 5.3 Age distribution of the resident population: by sex and country 31 statistics 5.4 Marital condition (de jure): estimated population: by age and sex 34 5.5 Geographical distribution of the population 35 5.6 Population: by ethnic group and age, Spring 2002 – Winter 2002/03 36 5.7 Total international migration estimates: citizenship 36 5.8 Estimates of migration into and out of the United Kingdom by usual occupation and sex 37 5.9 Estimates of migration into and out of the United Kingdom by citizenship and country of last or next residence 38 5.10 Acceptances for settlement: by nationality 40 5.11 Applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants: by nationality 41 iii Contents Table Page Vital statistics 5.12 Marriages: by previous marital status, sex, age and country 42 5.13 Divorce: by duration of marriage, age of wife and country 44 5.14 Divorce proceedings: by country 46 5.15 Births: by country and sex 48 5.16 Birth occurrence inside and outside marriage: by age of mother 50 5.17 Live births: by age of mother and country 51 5.18 Legal abortions: by age for residents 53 5.19 Deaths: by sex and age 54 5.20 Infant and maternal mortality 58 5.21 Death rates: by sex and age 60 5.22 Interim life tables, 2002–04 61 5.23 Adoptions by date of entry in Adopted Children Register: by sex, age and country 62 Explanatory notes 66 Education 6.1 Number of schools by type and establishments of further and higher education 69 6.2 Full-time and part-time pupils in school: by age and sex 70 6 6.3 Pupils and teachers, and pupil: teacher ratios: by school type 71 6.4 Full-time and part-time pupils with special educational needs (SEN), 2004/05 72 6.5 GCE, GCSE and SCE/NQ and vocational qualifications obtained at a typical age, and by students of any age 73 6.6 Students in further education: by country, mode of study, sex and age, during 2003/04 74 6.7 Students in further education: by country, mode of study, sex and area of learning, 2003/04 75 6.8 Students in higher education: by level, mode of study, sex and age, 2003/04 76 6.9 Students in higher education: by level, mode of study, sex and subject group, 2003/04 77 6.10 Students obtaining higher education qualifications: by level, sex and subject group, 2003/04 78 6.11 Qualified teachers: by type of school and sex 79 Explanatory notes 82 Labour market 7.1 Labour force summary: by sex 87 7 7.2 Employment status: full-time/part-time, second jobs and temporary employees 88 7.3 Employment: by sex and age 89 7.4 Distribution of the workforce: by sex 90 7.5 Employee jobs: by industry 91 7.6 Weekly hours worked: by sex 95 7.7 Civil Service staff: by ministerial responsibility 96 7.8 Unemployment: number by sex and age group 97 7.9 Unemployment: percentage by sex and age group 98 7.10 Duration of unemployment: by sex 99 7.11 Claimant count: by age and duration 100 7.12 Unemployment rates: by region 101 7.13 Claimant count rates: by region 101 7.14 Claimant count: by region 102 7.15 Economic activity: by sex and age 103 7.16 Economically inactive: by sex and age 104 7.17 Economically inactive: by reason and sex 105 7.18 Labour disputes: by industry 106 7.19 Average earnings and hours of full-time employees: by industry division and sex 107 7.20 Average earnings and hours of full time employees: by sex 109 7.21 Average earnings index: all employees by main industrial sectors 110 iv Contents Table Page 7.22 Average earnings index: all employee jobs: by industry 111 7.23 Gross weekly and hourly earnings of full time employees: by sex 115 7.24 Average earnings: by age group of full time employees: by sex, 2004 115 7.25 Trade unions 116 Explanatory notes 118 Personal 8.1 Distribution of total income before and after tax 119 income, 8.2 Average income of households before and after taxes and benefits, 2003/04 121 expenditure8 8.3 Sources of gross household income 121 and wealth 8.4 Households and their expenditure at current prices 122 8.5 Households with selected durable goods 122 Explanatory notes 124 Health National Health Service 9.1 Hospital and family health services: England and Wales 126 9 9.2 Hospital and primary care services: Scotland 127 9.3 Hospital and general health services: Northern Ireland 128 9.4 Health services: workforce summary 129 9.5 Health and personal social services: workforce summary 130 Public health 9.6 Deaths: by cause 131 9.7 Notifications of infectious diseases: by country 135 9.8 Estimated number of cases of work-related disease reported by specialist physicians to THOR 136 9.9 Deaths due to occupationally related lung disease 137 9.10 Injuries to workers: by industry and severity of injury 137 Explanatory notes 140 Social 10.1 National Insurance Fund 144 protection 10.2 Persons who paid National Insurance contributions in a tax year: by sex 144 10 10.3 Weekly rates of principal social security benefits 145 10.4 National Insurance contributions 148 10.5 Social Security Acts: number of persons receiving benefit 149 10.6 Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants: by benefit entitlement 150 10.7 Sickness benefit, Invalidity Benefit and Incapacity Benefit claimants: by sex, age and duration of spell 151 10.8 Sickness, Invalidity and Incapacity Benefit: days of certified incapacity 151 10.9 Child benefits 152 10.10 Family Credit/Working Families’ Tax Credit