DDS Entity Definition: T_WK

Name:

Work & Poverty

Identifier:

T_WK

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 "T_WK" is contained within:

Databases:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme "T_WK" contains:

Rates :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_CENSUS_MALE_UNEM	Male Unemployment
R_CENSUS_FEM_ACTIVE	Female Activity Rate
R_CLAIMANT_COUNT	Claimant Count Unemployment
R_WELFARE	Percentage on 'Welfare'

nCubes :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_CENSUS_UNEM	Census Unemployment by Sex
N_CENSUS_ACTIVE_GEN	Economically Active by Sex
N_WORKING_AGE	All of Working Age, 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_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT	Percentage Unemployed by Category of the Insured (Adjusted)
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_TOT	Total number of persons receiving welfare assistance

Variables :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_CENSUS_ACTIVE	Economically Active
V_WORKING_AGE	All of Working Age
V_CENSUS_UNEM	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_TOT	Total receiving welfare assistance