Ethnic Minority populations and the labour market

	Ethnic Minority populations and the Labour Market: Analysis of the 2001 Census

Significant change for neighbourhoods 1991 -2001

In the main report, Chapters 4-9 provide for each indicator a count of the number of neighbourhoods that improved significantly and the number that worsened significantly, among all the 1,138 neighbourhoods of England and Wales.

“Significance” was satisfied in three ways:

the change was of at least three percentage points, and
the population (the denominator of the indicator) was more than 50 in both 1991 and 2001, and
the difference between 1991 and 2001 was statistically significant at the 5% level.

These tables are reproduced here with links to files that provide the full statistics for each neighbourhood that experienced significant change.

Economic activity:

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with more activity in 2001 than in 1991	Number worsened
Total	498	154
White	523	141
Caribbean	31	234
African	46	78
Indian	105	126
Pakistani	25	111
Bangladeshi	12	34
Chinese	97	110

Employment:

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with more employment in 2001 than in 1991	Number worsened
Total	850	30
White	881	37
Caribbean	103	44
African	142	25
Indian	266	50
Pakistani	193	10
Bangladeshi	97	8
Chinese	138	81

Qualifications:

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with more degrees in 2001 than in 1991	Number worsened
Total	1012	0
White	954	0
Caribbean	377	27
African	199	27
Indian	579	33
Pakistani	342	10
Bangladeshi	175	7
Chinese	346	73

Unemployment:

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with less unemployment in 2001 than in 1991	Number worsened
Total	716	0
White	714	0
Caribbean	303	4
African	157	1
Indian	396	10
Pakistani	277	1
Bangladeshi	119	0
Chinese	169	12

Economic inactivity (Sick):

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with fewer permanently sick/disabled in 2001 than in 1991	Number worsened
Total	2	120
White	2	144
Caribbean	20	73
African	15	27
Indian	40	65
Pakistani	11	49
Bangladeshi	33	21
Chinese	33	54

Part Time:

Ethnic group	Number of neighbourhoods with more part-time in 2001 than in 91	Number with less
Total	240	2
White	196	7
Caribbean	215	3
African	23	19
Indian	216	25
Pakistani	183	1
Bangladeshi	82	0
Chinese	53	17