Unemployment

[arnauqb]

As of now, we use https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs701ew to link a mode of transport to people that go to work. One of the mode of transport categories corresponds to unemployed people.

We currently make the assumption that everyone between the age of 18 and 64 is a student or a worker, which means some people go to work but have an "unemployed" mode of transport tag. It would be good to model unemployment by forcing unemployed people to do leisure during working hours (like retired people), so that the mode of transport allocation is also consistent.

[aidansedgewick]

available at OA level, by sex, is economic activity - includes Economically active: unemployed, also broken into 18-24, 25-74.
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks601ew

also "adults not in employment by household composition"
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks106ew

Unsure if we will find anything with better age strata (or if you even want it?) but I have only looked in any detail on NOMIS.

[JosephPB]

Just to note here what Sinclair said in response to a question about handling students:

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In the 2011 Census questionnaire all people aged 16 and over were asked whether they had worked in the last week. The Census question gave the instruction to: Include any paid work, including casual or temporary work, even if only for one hour.

If a student indicated they had done paid work they would be counted as in employment and were additionally instructed to complete the questions on address of workplace and method of travel to that workplace.

This information forms the basis for the tables on method of travel to work. So student status in not taken into account - anybody who said they had worked in the last week was counted as in employment. If a student said they had not done paid work they would be counted in the 'not in employment' category. And, just to confirm your final point, a Student's University was not counted as employment.
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