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CONTENTS Table Page Units of measurement xii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 PART ONE Area Explanatory notes 4 1 1.1 Area of the United Kingdom 5 Parliamentary PART TWO elections 2.1 Parliamentary elections 8 2 2.2 Parliamentary by-elections 8 Explanatory Notes 10 International 3.1 UK Gross public expenditure on aid (GPEX) 11 development 3.2 Total bilateral gross public expenditure on aid (GPEX): by main recipient 3 countries and regions 11 Explanatory notes 14 Defence 4.1 Formation of the UK armed forces 16 4.2 UK Defence expenditure 16 4.3 UK Defence: service manpower strengths 17 4.4 Intake of UK regular forces from civilian life: by service 17 4 4.5 Outflow of UK regular forces: by service 18 4.6 Deployment of UK service personnel 18 4.7 Family accommodation and defence land holdings 19 4.8 UK Defence civilian manpower strengths 19 4.9 Strength of uniformed UK medical staff 20 4.10 UK regular forces - deaths 20 4.11 UK Defence services and the civilian community 20 4.12 Search and rescue operations at home 21 PART THREE Explanatory notes 24 Population and vital statistics Population 5.1 Population summary 26 5.2 Population changes 27 5 5.3 Age distribution of the resident population 28 5.4 Marital condition (de jure): estimated population 31 5.5 Geographical distribution of the population 33 5.6 Population by age and ethnic group, Great Britain 34 5.7 Migration into and out of the United Kingdom (by occupation) 35 5.8 Migration into and out of the United Kingdom (by citizenship) 36 5.9 Acceptances for settlement by nationality 38 5.10 Applications received for asylum, excluding dependants, by nationality 39 Vital statistics 5.11 Marriages 40 5.12 Divorce 42 5.13 Divorce proceedings 44 5.14 Births 46 5.15 Birth occurrence inside and outside marriage by age of mother 48 5.16 Live births by age of mother 49 5.17 Legal abortions 51 iii CONTENTS Table Page 5.18 Deaths: analysis by age and gender 52 5.19 Deaths: analysed by cause 56 5.20 Infant and maternal mortality 59 5.21 Death rates per 1000 population 61 5.22 Life tables 62 5.23 Adoptions by age and gender 63 5.24 Adoptions by date of entry in Adopted Children Register 64 Explanatory notes 66 6.1 Number of schools or departments by type and establishments of Education further and higher education 68 6.2 Full-time and part-time pupils in school by age and gender 69 6.3 Number of pupils and teachers: pupil/teacher ratios by school type 70 6 6.4 Full-time and part-time pupils with special educational needs 71 6.5 GCE, GCSE and SCE qualifications obtained 72 6.6 Students in further education by country, mode of study, gender and age 73 6.7 Students in further education by country, mode of study, gender and subject group 74 6.8 Students in higher education by level, mode of study, gender and age 75 6.9 Students in higher education by type of course, mode of study, gender and subject group 76 6.10 Students obtaining higher education qualifications by type of course, gender and subject group 77 6.11 Qualified teachers: by type of school and gender 78 Explanatory notes 80 Labour 7.1 Summary for UK labour force 83 market 7.2 Employment status, full-time/part-time, second jobs, temporary employees 84 7.3 Employment 85 7.4 Distribution of the workforce 86 7 7.5 Employee jobs 87 7.6 Weekly hours worked 91 7.7 Civil Service staff 92 7.8 Persons employed in local authorities 93 7.9 Duration of ILO unemployment 95 7.10 ILO unemployment 96 7.11 Claimant count by age and duration 97 7.12 ILO unemployment rates 98 7.13 Claimant count rates 98 7.14 Claimant count 99 7.15 Economic activity: by age and gender 100 7.16 Economically inactive: by age and gender 101 7.17 Economically inactive: by reason 102 7.18 Labour disputes 103 7.19 Average earnings and hours of manual employees, by industry division 105 7.20 Average weekly and hourly earnings and hours of full time employees on adult rates: Great Britain 107 7.21 Average earnings index: all employees: main industrial sectors 108 7.22 Average earnings index excluding bonus payments: all employee jobs: by industry 109 7.23 Gross weekly and hourly earnings of full time adult employees: Great Britain 111 7.24 Gross weekly and hourly earnings of full time adults: Northern Ireland 113 7.25 Average earnings by age group of full time employees 115 7.26 Trade unions 116 7.27 Vacancies at jobcentres in the United Kingdom 117 iv CONTENTS Table Page Personal Explanatory notes 120 income, 8.1 Average incomes of households before and after taxes expenditure and benefits 121 and wealth 8.2 Distribution of total incomes before and after tax 122 8.3 Sources of gross household income 124 8 8.4 Availability in households of certain durable goods 124 8.5 Households and their expenditure 125 Explanatory notes 128 Health National Health Service 9.1 Hospital and family health services: England and Wales 129 9.2 Hospital and primary care services: Scotland 130 9 9.3 Hospital and general health services: Northern Ireland 131 9.4 Health and personal social services: workforce summary 132 Public health 9.5 Notifications of infectious diseases 134 9.6 Estimated number of cases of work-related disease 135 9.7 Deaths due to occupationally related lung disease 136 9.8 Injuries to workers by industry and severity of injury 136 Explanatory notes 138 Social 10.1 National Insurance Fund 141 protection 10.2 Persons who paid National Insurance contributions 141 10.3 Weekly rates of principal social security benefits 142 10.4 National Insurance contributions 145 10 10.5 Social Security Acts: number of persons receiving benefit 146 10.6 Unemployed benefit/jobseekers allowance claimants analysed by benefit entitlement 147 10.7 Sickness benefit, invalidity and incapacity benefit, by age and duration of spell 149 10.8 Sickness, invalidity and incapacity benefit: days of certified incapacity 149 10.9 Widows benefit 150 10.10 Child benefits 150 10.11 Contributory and non-contributory retirement pensions 151 10.12 Family credit/Working Families' Tax Credit 151 10.13 Income support: number of claimants receiving weekly payment 152 10.14 Income support 152 10.15 Income support: average weekly amounts of benefit 153 10.16 War pensions 153 10.17 Summary of government expenditure on social services and housing 154 10.18 Government expenditure on education 155 10.19 Government expenditure on the National Health Service 156 10.20 Government expenditure on the welfare services 156 10.21 Government expenditure on social security benefits 157 10.22 Government and other public sector expenditure on housing 158 Explanatory notes 160 Crime and England and Wales justice 11.1 Recorded crime statistics 162 11.2 Police forces: strength (data for all countries) 163 11 11.3 Offenders found guilty: by offence group: Magistrates' Courts and Crown Court 164 v CONTENTS Table Page 11.4 Offenders cautioned: by offence group 165 11.5 Offenders found guilty of offences: by age and gender 166 11.6 Persons cautioned by the police: by age and gender 166 11.7 Sentence or order passed on offenders sentenced for indictable offences: by gender 167 11.8 Offenders sentenced to immediate custody for standard list offences 168 11.9 Population in Prison Service establishments under sentence 168 11.10 Receptions and average population in custody 169 11.11 Prison population serving sentences: analysis by age and offence 170 11.12 Expenditure on prisons 172 Scotland 11.13 Crimes and offences recorded by the police 173 11.14 Persons proceeded against 174 11.15 Persons called to court 174 11.16 Persons with charge proved: by main penalty 175 11.17 Persons with charge proved: