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CSO statistical release, 24 September 2019, 11am

Labour Force Survey (LFS) Households and Family Units

Quarter 2 2013 - Quarter 2 2019

Indicator	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19	Change Q2 18 to Q2 19
Proportion of persons aged 0-17 years living in jobless households	18.0%	16.1%	14.7%	13.2%	11.9%	11.8%	11.3%	- 0.5 percentage points
Proportion of persons aged 18-59 years living in jobless households	14.6%	13.1%	11.8%	11.1%	9.9%	9.5%	8.8%	- 0.7 percentage points
Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 years living in jobless households	15.7%	14.0%	12.7%	11.7%	10.5%	10.2%	9.6%	- 0.6 percentage points

Just under 10% of persons aged under 60 years were living in jobless households in Q2 2019

Figure 1 Proportion of Persons aged 18-59 years living in jobless households

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In Q2 2019, 9.6% of persons aged 0-59 years were living in jobless households compared to 10.2% in Q2 2018. The share of persons aged 18-59 years living in jobless households in Q2 2019 was 8.8% compared with 9.5% in Q2 2018. The share of persons aged 0-17 years living in jobless households in Q2 2019 was 11.3% compared with 11.8% in Q2 2018. See Table 1 and Figure 1.

Of the eight NUTS3 Regions, Dublin had the lowest proportion of persons aged 0-59 years living in jobless households (7.1%) in Q2 2019, while the Midland region had the highest proportion (15.4%). See Table 1.

Over half of households consisted of no more than 2 persons

One and two-person households together accounted for more than half (56.9%) of all the households in the State in Q2 2019. The Border region had the highest proportion of households with two persons or less at 60.6% while the Mid-East region had the lowest at 49.5%. Three out of every ten (31.9%) households contained between three and four persons and 11.2% contained five or more persons. See Table 2 and 3.

Nearly three out of every ten households consisted of just one person

In Q2 2019, nearly three out of every ten (27.6%) households in the State or 525,800 were single person households. Just over a fifth (20.9%) or 397,900 consisted of a couple without children and a third (33.9%) or 645,100 consisted of a couple with children. Finally, 12.1% or 230,200 consisted of lone parent households. See Table 6.

Over six out of every ten adult members of family units were employed

There were 2,393,600 adult members of family units in Q2 2019. Of the total, 1,547,500 (64.7%) were classified as employed. Nearly half (49.0%) of adults in family units without children were employed while the corresponding share for those in couples with children and in lone parent family units were 75.8% and 57.9% respectively. See Tables 7 and 8.

There were 54,500 adults in family units who were classified as unemployed in Q2 2019 and this represented 2.3% of the total number of adult members of family units. The proportion of adults who were unemployed in lone parent family units was the highest at 3.9% while the lowest was for those in family units without children at 1.5%.

Just over a third (33.1%) of all adults in family units were not in the Labour Force.

Marginal increase in employment rate for adult members of family units

There was a marginal increase in the employment rate for adult members of family units without children from 75.7% to 75.8% in the year to Q2 2019. See Tables 9 and 10.

The employment rate of adult members of family units with children (which includes couples with children and lone parents) was 76.4% and this showed a very slight increase from Q2 2018. The employment rate for adult members of couples with children was unchanged over the year at 78.5% while the rate for lone parents increased from 63.0% to 64.3%. See Table 9 and 10.

The employment rate for all persons aged 15-64 was 69.1% in Q2 2019 and this was up from the 68.5% recorded in Q2 2018. See Tables 9 and 10.

Falling unemployment rate among family unit categories

The unemployment rate for all persons aged 15-74 fell from 6.0% to 5.4% in the year to Q2 2019. Adults in family units without children recorded an unemployment rate of 2.9%, down from 3.8% a year earlier while the rate for adult members of family units with children fell from 4.1% to 3.6% over the same period. Within the family units with children category, the unemployment rate for adult members of couples with children fell from 3.6% to 3.2% while the rate for adult members of lone parent family units was down from to 8.2% to 6.3%. See Table 11 and 12.

Participation rates falling in some family unit categories

The participation rate for adults in some family unit categories declined in the year to Q2 2019. The participation rate for adults in family units without children fell from 52.2% to 50.5% over the year while the rate for adults in couples with children fell from 78.6% to 78.2%. The participation rate for adults in lone parent family units was down from 62.1% to 61.8% over the same period. See Table 13 and 14.

On the other hand, the participation for adults in single person households increased from 43.8% to 46.7% over the same period. See Table 14.

Show Table 1 Proportion of persons in jobless households by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, age and gender

Table 1 Proportion of persons in jobless households by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, age and gender
%
Region/ Jobless households		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	18.8	17.1	14.5	12.4	13.9	11.9	11.3
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.9	14.2	10.7	10.9	10.2	10.2	9.0
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.9	15.0	12.8	12.1	12.9	11.2	9.9
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.4	14.6	11.8	11.5	11.5	10.7	9.5
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	16.5	15.4	12.6	11.8	12.3	11.1	10.1
Border
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	22.3	16.8	14.6	11.7	13.7	8.4	9.3
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	16.2	15.0	10.5	10.8	9.9	9.3	8.6
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	17.3	14.2	12.7	12.3	13.2	9.6	9.6
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	16.7	14.6	11.6	11.6	11.6	9.5	9.1
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	18.5	15.3	12.6	11.6	12.3	9.1	9.2
West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	15.6	17.4	14.4	13.0	14.0	15.1	13.2
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.8	13.5	10.8	11.0	10.4	11.0	9.4
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.7	15.7	13.0	11.8	12.5	12.6	10.2
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.3	14.6	11.9	11.4	11.5	11.8	9.8
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	14.7	15.5	12.7	11.9	12.3	12.8	10.9

Southern
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	17.1	15.4	14.4	12.4	10.7	11.4	12.7
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.5	12.5	11.7	11.4	9.4	8.8	9.9
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.4	15.0	13.2	11.7	9.5	11.4	11.4
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.0	13.8	12.5	11.5	9.5	10.1	10.6
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.6	14.3	13.0	11.8	9.9	10.5	11.3
Mid-West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	16.6	15.8	12.6	11.7	13.1	11.5	12.6
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.6	12.3	12.0	12.1	9.7	8.2	9.2
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.9	13.8	13.1	11.4	11.6	11.8	11.3
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.7	13.1	12.6	11.8	10.7	10.0	10.2
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.3	13.9	12.6	11.7	11.4	10.5	11.0
South-East
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	21.1	15.7	14.7	11.0	11.0	11.5	12.0
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	19.1	13.6	11.9	12.2	12.2	10.8	9.5
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	19.2	16.9	15.3	11.6	10.8	14.6	14.3
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	19.2	15.3	13.6	11.9	11.5	12.7	11.9
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	19.8	15.4	14.0	11.6	11.3	12.3	12.0
South-West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	14.9	14.8	15.3	13.8	8.9	11.2	13.1
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	11.6	12.0	11.5	10.4	7.5	8.0	10.6
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.6	14.7	11.9	11.9	7.4	9.3	9.7
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	12.6	13.3	11.7	11.2	7.5	8.7	10.1
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	13.3	13.8	12.8	12.0	7.9	9.5	11.0

Eastern and Midland
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	18.2	16.1	15.1	14.0	11.9	12.0	10.5
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.7	11.0	10.8	10.1	9.0	8.2	6.1
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.6	13.2	11.8	11.3	10.1	9.3	8.7
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.2	12.1	11.3	10.7	9.6	8.8	7.4
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.4	13.3	12.4	11.7	10.3	9.7	8.3
Dublin
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	17.9	16.3	16.1	15.2	12.7	11.5	9.7
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	12.7	9.6	9.8	9.3	8.5	7.3	5.1
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.8	11.7	11.0	11.1	9.6	8.0	7.2
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	13.3	10.6	10.4	10.2	9.1	7.7	6.2
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	14.5	12.2	12.0	11.6	10.1	8.7	7.1
Mid-East
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	18.6	15.5	13.5	12.5	9.7	9.5	8.7
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	12.9	11.3	10.4	9.5	7.5	7.5	5.7
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.0	13.8	11.6	10.2	8.9	8.5	8.7
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.0	12.6	11.0	9.8	8.2	8.0	7.2
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.5	13.5	11.8	10.7	8.7	8.5	7.7
Midland
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	18.5	17.2	15.1	13.3	14.3	20.0	17.6
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	19.9	17.2	16.7	15.2	14.5	14.0	12.3
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	17.7	19.1	16.7	15.4	15.8	17.8	16.2
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	18.8	18.1	16.7	15.3	15.1	15.9	14.2
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	18.7	17.8	16.1	14.6	14.9	17.2	15.4

State
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	18.0	16.1	14.7	13.2	11.9	11.8	11.3
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.2	12.1	11.1	10.7	9.3	8.7	7.8
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.1	14.1	12.4	11.6	10.4	10.3	9.8
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.6	13.1	11.8	11.1	9.9	9.5	8.8
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.7	14.0	12.7	11.7	10.5	10.2	9.6
Note: Households consisting entirely of persons aged 18-24, all of whom have indicated that their Principal Economic Status is Student, are excluded from the above calculations
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 2 Number of households classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions and Size of Household
'000
Region/ Household size		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	1 person	81.7	77.8	72.5	78.1	80.1	94.7	103.5
	2 persons	95.3	92.6	89.7	100.4	102.5	95.8	103.0
	3 persons	53.5	50.2	51.3	52.4	51.4	52.7	53.3
	4 persons	44.3	49.4	49.1	45.9	45.5	46.6	51.1
	5 persons	26.6	26.0	29.0	27.7	28.9	28.9	21.6
	6 or more persons	14.0	14.0	13.5	12.9	13.1	13.3	13.9
	Total households	315.5	310.0	305.2	317.4	321.7	331.9	346.5
Border
	1 person	41.8	35.9	33.9	35.9	42.1	45.6	48.4
	2 persons	43.2	43.6	41.8	48.3	46.2	43.4	49.2
	3 persons	23.7	24.2	23.6	23.7	25.4	25.2	23.1
	4 persons	19.8	21.9	22.9	19.7	20.9	20.6	22.1
	5 persons	13.9	13.2	14.1	13.4	12.3	14.7	11.7
	6 or more persons	6.9	6.5	6.4	6.9	6.7	[6.1]	7.0
	Total households	149.2	145.3	142.8	147.9	153.6	155.5	161.5
West
	1 person	39.9	41.9	38.6	42.2	38.0	49.2	55.1
	2 persons	52.1	49.1	47.9	52.1	56.4	52.4	53.8
	3 persons	29.8	26.0	27.7	28.7	26.0	27.5	30.1
	4 persons	24.5	27.5	26.2	26.2	24.6	25.9	29.0
	5 persons	12.8	12.8	14.9	14.3	16.6	14.3	9.9
	6 or more persons	7.1	7.5	7.1	6.1	6.5	7.1	7.0
	Total households	166.2	164.7	162.4	169.5	168.1	176.4	184.9

Southern
	1 person	135.9	130.0	140.1	144.9	141.3	166.5	178.0
	2 persons	179.2	178.6	174.0	166.1	178.1	178.9	190.1
	3 persons	102.7	101.9	100.7	105.7	96.7	95.6	92.9
	4 persons	100.0	94.9	96.0	93.9	102.5	95.0	98.4
	5 persons	46.1	51.6	49.2	50.3	48.9	54.1	52.5
	6 or more persons	19.7	20.8	22.8	24.5	24.0	23.4	21.1
	Total households	583.5	577.7	582.9	585.6	591.5	613.5	633.0
Mid-West
	1 person	39.4	40.4	40.8	41.1	48.6	50.3	55.8
	2 persons	53.1	53.5	51.3	49.5	53.6	52.8	58.8
	3 persons	30.6	31.0	29.9	33.8	28.5	26.7	25.2
	4 persons	30.2	28.2	29.6	29.0	31.0	27.7	29.2
	5 persons	14.9	15.1	15.6	13.8	13.9	18.2	16.2
	6 or more persons	6.0	6.5	6.8	7.0	6.5	7.0	[6.1]
	Total households	174.1	174.7	174.0	174.2	182.2	182.7	191.3
South-East
	1 person	37.0	32.2	38.4	40.2	36.6	41.2	50.1
	2 persons	49.6	49.0	48.7	46.3	50.2	50.1	46.2
	3 persons	26.7	26.9	27.8	28.5	24.8	25.9	26.4
	4 persons	26.8	24.2	24.0	23.2	26.7	25.0	27.9
	5 persons	12.5	13.9	12.4	14.2	14.4	12.2	13.8
	6 or more persons	4.3	5.7	5.9	6.2	5.6	7.9	[5.3]
	Total households	157.0	151.8	157.3	158.6	158.3	162.3	169.7
South-West
	1 person	59.5	57.4	60.9	63.7	56.2	74.9	72.1
	2 persons	76.5	76.1	74.0	70.4	74.2	76.0	85.1
	3 persons	45.4	44.0	43.0	43.5	43.4	43.0	41.3
	4 persons	42.9	42.4	42.4	41.7	44.8	42.3	41.3
	5 persons	18.7	22.6	21.2	22.3	20.5	23.8	22.4
	6 or more persons	9.4	8.6	10.2	11.3	11.9	8.5	9.7
	Total households	252.4	251.1	251.7	252.9	251.0	268.4	272.0

Eastern and Midland
	1 person	167.7	172.4	177.4	196.6	191.8	229.1	244.3
	2 persons	241.7	249.4	241.2	239.7	243.9	260.0	263.0
	3 persons	148.9	147.9	155.8	157.5	150.4	156.2	158.6
	4 persons	141.4	142.0	143.3	152.1	156.0	150.2	153.2
	5 persons	69.9	71.6	70.8	76.4	76.3	73.1	71.9
	6 or more persons	32.8	32.4	36.0	28.4	33.1	32.2	32.5
	Total households	802.3	815.7	824.4	850.7	851.4	900.7	923.4
Dublin
	1 person	99.5	106.4	110.6	119.1	118.7	152.0	158.5
	2 persons	147.9	149.2	146.2	147.9	147.7	154.7	158.6
	3 persons	86.4	86.8	89.4	92.9	88.2	93.1	94.4
	4 persons	79.2	78.1	81.0	85.4	86.9	81.8	82.8
	5 persons	36.9	39.3	38.5	41.2	40.5	41.5	38.5
	6 or more persons	17.5	17.6	19.7	14.8	18.8	15.4	17.9
	Total households	467.3	477.4	485.4	501.2	500.9	538.5	550.6
Mid-East
	1 person	43.9	44.0	42.5	47.9	45.4	48.5	57.0
	2 persons	63.4	68.9	63.3	61.8	66.5	70.6	71.6
	3 persons	42.8	40.6	45.7	46.0	42.4	43.8	45.3
	4 persons	44.6	46.7	46.2	48.0	50.0	49.2	53.1
	5 persons	23.3	22.9	23.4	26.3	26.6	23.8	23.9
	6 or more persons	11.2	10.5	11.2	9.1	9.7	12.2	8.7
	Total households	229.1	233.6	232.3	239.1	240.6	248.0	259.5
Midland
	1 person	24.2	21.9	24.3	29.5	27.7	28.6	28.8
	2 persons	30.4	31.3	31.6	30.0	29.7	34.7	32.8
	3 persons	19.7	20.5	20.7	18.7	19.8	19.3	18.9
	4 persons	17.6	17.2	16.1	18.7	19.0	19.2	17.3
	5 persons	9.7	9.5	8.8	8.9	9.2	7.7	9.5
	6 or more persons	4.1	4.3	5.1	[4.4]	[4.6]	[4.7]	[5.9]
	Total households	105.8	104.7	106.7	110.3	109.9	114.2	113.2

State
	1 person	385.3	380.2	390.0	419.6	413.2	490.2	525.8
	2 persons	516.2	520.6	504.9	506.3	524.5	534.7	556.1
	3 persons	305.0	300.0	307.8	315.7	298.5	304.4	304.8
	4 persons	285.7	286.3	288.4	291.9	304.0	291.7	302.7
	5 persons	142.7	149.2	149.0	154.4	154.0	156.1	146.0
	6 or more persons	66.5	67.2	72.3	65.9	70.3	68.9	67.5
	Total households	1,701.3	1,703.4	1,712.5	1,753.6	1,764.5	1,846.1	1,902.9
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 3 Share of households classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions and Size of Household
%
Region/ Household size		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	1 person	25.9	25.1	23.8	24.6	24.9	28.5	29.9
	2 persons	30.2	29.9	29.4	31.6	31.9	28.9	29.7
	3 persons	17.0	16.2	16.8	16.5	16.0	15.9	15.4
	4 persons	14.0	15.9	16.1	14.5	14.1	14.0	14.7
	5 persons	8.4	8.4	9.5	8.7	9.0	8.7	6.2
	6 or more persons	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.0
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Border
	1 person	28.0	24.7	23.7	24.3	27.4	29.3	30.0
	2 persons	28.9	30.0	29.3	32.7	30.0	27.9	30.5
	3 persons	15.9	16.7	16.5	16.0	16.6	16.2	14.3
	4 persons	13.2	15.1	16.0	13.3	13.6	13.3	13.7
	5 persons	9.3	9.1	9.9	9.0	8.0	9.4	7.3
	6 or more persons	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.0	4.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West
	1 person	24.0	25.4	23.8	24.9	22.6	27.9	29.8
	2 persons	31.3	29.8	29.5	30.7	33.5	29.7	29.1
	3 persons	17.9	15.8	17.0	16.9	15.5	15.6	16.3
	4 persons	14.8	16.7	16.2	15.5	14.6	14.7	15.7
	5 persons	7.7	7.8	9.2	8.4	9.9	8.1	5.4
	6 or more persons	4.3	4.5	4.4	3.6	3.9	4.0	3.8
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Southern
	1 person	23.3	22.5	24.0	24.7	23.9	27.1	28.1
	2 persons	30.7	30.9	29.9	28.4	30.1	29.2	30.0
	3 persons	17.6	17.6	17.3	18.1	16.4	15.6	14.7
	4 persons	17.1	16.4	16.5	16.0	17.3	15.5	15.5
	5 persons	7.9	8.9	8.4	8.6	8.3	8.8	8.3
	6 or more persons	3.4	3.6	3.9	4.2	4.1	3.8	3.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-West
	1 person	22.6	23.1	23.5	23.6	26.7	27.6	29.1
	2 persons	30.5	30.6	29.5	28.4	29.4	28.9	30.7
	3 persons	17.6	17.7	17.2	19.4	15.7	14.6	13.2
	4 persons	17.3	16.1	17.0	16.6	17.0	15.2	15.3
	5 persons	8.5	8.6	9.0	7.9	7.6	10.0	8.5
	6 or more persons	3.4	3.7	3.9	4.0	3.6	3.9	3.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-East
	1 person	23.6	21.2	24.4	25.3	23.1	25.4	29.5
	2 persons	31.6	32.2	31.0	29.2	31.7	30.9	27.2
	3 persons	17.0	17.7	17.7	18.0	15.7	16.0	15.6
	4 persons	17.1	15.9	15.3	14.7	16.9	15.4	16.4
	5 persons	8.0	9.1	7.9	9.0	9.1	7.5	8.1
	6 or more persons	2.7	3.7	3.7	3.9	3.5	4.9	3.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-West
	1 person	23.6	22.9	24.2	25.2	22.4	27.9	26.5
	2 persons	30.3	30.3	29.4	27.8	29.6	28.3	31.3
	3 persons	18.0	17.5	17.1	17.2	17.3	16.0	15.2
	4 persons	17.0	16.9	16.8	16.5	17.9	15.8	15.2
	5 persons	7.4	9.0	8.4	8.8	8.2	8.9	8.2
	6 or more persons	3.7	3.4	4.0	4.5	4.7	3.2	3.6
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Eastern and Midland
	1 person	20.9	21.1	21.5	23.1	22.5	25.4	26.5
	2 persons	30.1	30.6	29.3	28.2	28.6	28.9	28.5
	3 persons	18.6	18.1	18.9	18.5	17.7	17.3	17.2
	4 persons	17.6	17.4	17.4	17.9	18.3	16.7	16.6
	5 persons	8.7	8.8	8.6	9.0	9.0	8.1	7.8
	6 or more persons	4.1	4.0	4.4	3.3	3.9	3.6	3.5
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Dublin
	1 person	21.3	22.3	22.8	23.8	23.7	28.2	28.8
	2 persons	31.6	31.3	30.1	29.5	29.5	28.7	28.8
	3 persons	18.5	18.2	18.4	18.5	17.6	17.3	17.1
	4 persons	16.9	16.4	16.7	17.0	17.3	15.2	15.0
	5 persons	7.9	8.2	7.9	8.2	8.1	7.7	7.0
	6 or more persons	3.7	3.7	4.1	3.0	3.8	2.9	3.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-East
	1 person	19.2	18.8	18.3	20.0	18.9	19.5	21.9
	2 persons	27.7	29.5	27.3	25.9	27.6	28.5	27.6
	3 persons	18.7	17.4	19.7	19.2	17.6	17.7	17.4
	4 persons	19.5	20.0	19.9	20.1	20.8	19.8	20.5
	5 persons	10.2	9.8	10.1	11.0	11.0	9.6	9.2
	6 or more persons	4.9	4.5	4.8	3.8	4.0	4.9	3.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Midland
	1 person	22.9	20.9	22.8	26.8	25.2	25.0	25.5
	2 persons	28.7	29.9	29.6	27.2	27.0	30.3	28.9
	3 persons	18.6	19.6	19.4	16.9	18.0	16.9	16.7
	4 persons	16.6	16.5	15.1	17.0	17.3	16.8	15.3
	5 persons	9.2	9.1	8.3	8.1	8.3	6.8	8.4
	6 or more persons	3.9	4.1	4.8	4.0	4.2	4.1	5.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

State
	1 person	22.6	22.3	22.8	23.9	23.4	26.6	27.6
	2 persons	30.3	30.6	29.5	28.9	29.7	29.0	29.2
	3 persons	17.9	17.6	18.0	18.0	16.9	16.5	16.0
	4 persons	16.8	16.8	16.8	16.6	17.2	15.8	15.9
	5 persons	8.4	8.8	8.7	8.8	8.7	8.5	7.7
	6 or more persons	3.9	3.9	4.2	3.8	4.0	3.7	3.5
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 4 Number of households with or without person aged less than 18 by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions
'000
Region/ Household by age of persons		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	Household without person aged less than 18	202.2	199.7	190.4	206.6	210.3	223.0	231.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	113.3	110.3	114.8	110.8	111.4	109.0	114.7
	Total households	315.5	310.0	305.2	317.4	321.7	331.9	346.5
Border
	Household without person aged less than 18	96.3	91.6	88.4	95.2	99.3	104.4	108.1
	Household with person aged less than 18	53.0	53.7	54.5	52.7	54.3	51.1	53.4
	Total households	149.2	145.3	142.8	147.9	153.6	155.5	161.5
West
	Household without person aged less than 18	105.9	108.1	102.1	111.4	111.0	118.5	123.7
	Household with person aged less than 18	60.3	56.6	60.3	58.1	57.1	57.9	61.3
	Total households	166.2	164.7	162.4	169.5	168.1	176.4	184.9

Southern
	Household without person aged less than 18	367.6	365.7	373.2	376.1	380.8	400.1	421.7
	Household with person aged less than 18	215.9	212.0	209.8	209.5	210.7	213.4	211.4
	Total households	583.5	577.7	582.9	585.6	591.5	613.5	633.0
Mid-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	108.3	110.9	111.0	112.3	119.2	120.5	130.1
	Household with person aged less than 18	65.8	63.8	62.9	61.9	63.0	62.2	61.2
	Total households	174.1	174.7	174.0	174.2	182.2	182.7	191.3
South-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	98.3	95.0	99.5	101.4	99.5	105.3	111.3
	Household with person aged less than 18	58.7	56.8	57.8	57.2	58.8	57.0	58.4
	Total households	157.0	151.8	157.3	158.6	158.3	162.3	169.7
South-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	160.9	159.7	162.7	162.4	162.1	174.3	180.3
	Household with person aged less than 18	91.5	91.4	89.0	90.5	88.9	94.2	91.7
	Total households	252.4	251.1	251.7	252.9	251.0	268.4	272.0

Eastern and Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	492.9	508.2	514.9	544.4	535.9	579.0	593.5
	Household with person aged less than 18	309.4	307.5	309.5	306.2	315.5	321.6	329.9
	Total households	802.3	815.7	824.4	850.7	851.4	900.7	923.4
Dublin
	Household without person aged less than 18	303.3	315.3	317.4	337.6	331.8	363.0	368.5
	Household with person aged less than 18	164.0	162.1	168.0	163.7	169.1	175.5	182.1
	Total households	467.3	477.4	485.4	501.2	500.9	538.5	550.6
Mid-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	126.5	131.8	131.9	138.5	138.0	144.2	155.0
	Household with person aged less than 18	102.6	101.8	100.4	100.6	102.6	103.8	104.5
	Total households	229.1	233.6	232.3	239.1	240.6	248.0	259.5
Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.1	61.1	65.6	68.3	66.1	71.9	70.0
	Household with person aged less than 18	42.8	43.6	41.2	41.9	43.8	42.3	43.3
	Total households	105.8	104.7	106.7	110.3	109.9	114.2	113.2

State
	Household without person aged less than 18	1,062.7	1,073.7	1,078.4	1,127.1	1,127.0	1,202.1	1,246.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	638.6	629.8	634.0	626.6	637.5	644.0	655.9
	Total households	1,701.3	1,703.4	1,712.5	1,753.6	1,764.5	1,846.1	1,902.9
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 5 Share of households with or without person aged less than 18 by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions
%
Region/ Proportional household by age of persons		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	Household without person aged less than 18	64.1	64.4	62.4	65.1	65.4	67.2	66.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	35.9	35.6	37.6	34.9	34.6	32.8	33.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Border
	Household without person aged less than 18	64.5	63.0	61.9	64.4	64.6	67.2	66.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	35.5	37.0	38.1	35.6	35.4	32.8	33.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.7	65.6	62.9	65.7	66.0	67.2	66.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	36.3	34.4	37.1	34.3	34.0	32.8	33.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Southern
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.0	63.3	64.0	64.2	64.4	65.2	66.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.0	36.7	36.0	35.8	35.6	34.8	33.4
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.2	63.5	63.8	64.5	65.4	66.0	68.0
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.8	36.5	36.2	35.5	34.6	34.0	32.0
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.6	62.6	63.2	64.0	62.9	64.9	65.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.4	37.4	36.8	36.0	37.1	35.1	34.4
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.7	63.6	64.6	64.2	64.6	64.9	66.3
	Household with person aged less than 18	36.3	36.4	35.4	35.8	35.4	35.1	33.7
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Eastern and Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	61.4	62.3	62.5	64.0	62.9	64.3	64.3
	Household with person aged less than 18	38.6	37.7	37.5	36.0	37.1	35.7	35.7
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Dublin
	Household without person aged less than 18	64.9	66.0	65.4	67.3	66.2	67.4	66.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	35.1	34.0	34.6	32.7	33.8	32.6	33.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	55.2	56.4	56.8	57.9	57.4	58.1	59.7
	Household with person aged less than 18	44.8	43.6	43.2	42.1	42.6	41.9	40.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	59.6	58.4	61.4	62.0	60.2	62.9	61.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	40.4	41.6	38.6	38.0	39.8	37.1	38.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

State
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.5	63.0	63.0	64.3	63.9	65.1	65.5
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.5	37.0	37.0	35.7	36.1	34.9	34.5
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 6 Number of households classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions and family units
'000
Region/ Household type		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
	Single person household	81.7	77.8	72.5	78.1	80.1	94.7	103.5
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	69.6	69.5	66.6	75.9	76.7	75.3	74.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	113.5	115.4	121.5	114.7	112.8	113.8	114.7
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	34.7	32.3	32.8	33.2	35.3	33.2	38.5
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	13.6	12.0	9.3	12.9	13.8	12.5	11.7
	Total households	315.5	310.0	305.2	317.4	321.7	331.9	346.5
Border
	Single person household	41.8	35.9	33.9	35.9	42.1	45.6	48.4
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	32.2	32.9	30.2	36.9	34.1	34.9	35.0
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	54.2	55.4	56.1	53.9	53.7	53.6	52.1
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	15.9	15.9	16.8	15.5	18.2	16.3	18.5
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	[4.4]	[3.9]	[4.3]	[4.4]	[4.1]	*	[5.8]
	Total households	149.2	145.3	142.8	147.9	153.6	155.5	161.5
West
	Single person household	39.9	41.9	38.6	42.2	38.0	49.2	55.1
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	37.4	36.7	36.4	39.1	42.6	40.5	39.8
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	59.4	60.0	65.4	60.7	59.2	60.1	62.6
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	18.8	16.4	16.0	17.7	17.2	16.9	20.0
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	9.2	8.1	5.1	8.4	9.6	8.8	[5.9]
	Total households	166.2	164.7	162.4	169.5	168.1	176.4	184.9

Southern
	Single person household	135.9	130.0	140.1	144.9	141.3	166.5	178.0
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	132.3	129.3	132.0	127.4	136.7	135.3	136.7
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	219.1	219.5	218.8	225.6	224.9	214.0	215.4
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	65.4	65.2	62.1	62.9	61.2	68.5	75.1
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	5.6	6.1	6.3	6.4	6.6	8.8	[5.7]
	All other households	25.3	27.5	23.7	18.3	20.8	20.5	22.3
	Total households	583.5	577.7	582.9	585.6	591.5	613.5	633.0
Mid-West
	Single person household	39.4	40.4	40.8	41.1	48.6	50.3	55.8
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	40.1	40.7	39.5	39.1	39.2	40.8	40.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	66.7	65.1	68.0	69.6	65.6	63.1	64.8
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	18.6	18.4	16.3	17.9	20.2	19.7	20.8
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	7.1	8.0	6.9	[4.4]	7.3	6.4	8.1
	Total households	174.1	174.7	174.0	174.2	182.2	182.7	191.3
South-East
	Single person household	37.0	32.2	38.4	40.2	36.6	41.2	50.1
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	38.1	35.8	35.6	35.1	40.0	37.1	34.4
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	57.6	59.4	57.2	58.5	60.2	55.5	61.9
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	17.4	17.7	19.2	18.2	15.9	21.4	19.6
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	5.7	5.4	5.6	[4.9]	*	*	*
	Total households	157.0	151.8	157.3	158.6	158.3	162.3	169.7
South-West
	Single person household	59.5	57.4	60.9	63.7	56.2	74.9	72.1
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	54.1	52.8	56.9	53.2	57.4	57.4	61.4
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	94.8	95.0	93.5	97.5	99.1	95.4	88.7
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	29.4	29.1	26.6	26.9	25.0	27.5	34.6
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	[2.6]	[2.8]	*	*	[4.0]	*
	All other households	12.5	14.1	11.1	9.1	10.1	9.3	11.6
	Total households	252.4	251.1	251.7	252.9	251.0	268.4	272.0

Eastern and Midland
	Single person household	167.7	172.4	177.4	196.6	191.8	229.1	244.3
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	171.1	176.0	176.3	177.5	169.6	191.0	186.3
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	310.6	309.5	310.8	312.0	315.1	311.3	315.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	97.1	94.9	96.8	100.5	105.5	110.3	116.6
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	11.5	11.4	14.8	16.9	17.4	15.6	15.7
	All other households	44.4	51.6	48.3	47.2	52.0	43.5	45.4
	Total households	802.3	815.7	824.4	850.7	851.4	900.7	923.4
Dublin
	Single person household	99.5	106.4	110.6	119.1	118.7	152.0	158.5
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	99.3	101.4	103.7	106.6	103.5	111.7	106.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	165.9	165.4	165.1	162.4	163.6	170.0	168.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	60.3	55.3	57.4	61.5	63.4	60.7	70.0
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	7.8	8.0	10.0	11.7	12.6	10.0	9.7
	All other households	34.5	40.8	38.6	39.9	39.0	34.0	37.5
	Total households	467.3	477.4	485.4	501.2	500.9	538.5	550.6
Mid-East
	Single person household	43.9	44.0	42.5	47.9	45.4	48.5	57.0
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	48.1	51.5	48.0	48.0	47.0	53.7	53.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	103.0	100.8	103.4	106.6	107.8	101.4	105.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	24.7	27.0	28.0	26.7	26.9	32.9	33.1
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	[2.8]	*	[3.7]	*	*	[4.2]	[4.5]
	All other households	6.5	7.5	6.7	[5.7]	9.9	[7.3]	[6.1]
	Total households	229.1	233.6	232.3	239.1	240.6	248.0	259.5
Midland
	Single person household	24.2	21.9	24.3	29.5	27.7	28.6	28.8
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	23.6	23.1	24.6	22.9	19.1	25.6	25.5
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	41.8	43.3	42.2	43.0	43.7	39.9	42.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	12.0	12.5	11.4	12.4	15.1	16.7	13.5
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	[3.3]	[3.3]	[3.0]	*	*	*	*
	Total households	105.8	104.7	106.7	110.3	109.9	114.2	113.2

State
	Single person household	385.3	380.2	390.0	419.6	413.2	490.2	525.8
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	372.9	374.8	374.9	380.9	382.9	401.5	397.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	643.2	644.5	651.0	652.3	652.8	639.1	645.1
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	197.2	192.4	191.7	196.6	202.0	211.9	230.2
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	19.4	20.4	23.6	25.8	27.0	26.8	24.5
	All other households	83.3	91.1	81.3	78.4	86.6	76.5	79.4
	Total households	1,701.3	1,703.4	1,712.5	1,753.6	1,764.5	1,846.1	1,902.9
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Table 7 Adult members of family units classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, composition of family unit, ILO Economic Status and sex
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Region/ Family unit type/ ILO Economic Status/ Sex		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Northern and Western
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	36.4	35.4	34.9	39.4	41.3	39.6	39.9
	Female	30.8	28.3	27.9	35.0	32.2	32.5	36.8
	Total	67.1	63.7	62.8	74.4	73.5	72.1	76.7
Unemployed
	Male	[3.4]	[3.6]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	6.0	5.4	[3.4]	[4.6]	[3.8]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	30.5	31.6	31.4	35.0	36.3	36.3	33.7
	Female	37.4	40.0	38.3	41.3	42.7	43.7	40.5
	Total	68.0	71.6	69.7	76.3	79.0	80.0	74.2
Total
	Male	70.3	70.6	68.6	76.8	79.2	77.0	75.0
	Female	70.8	70.1	67.3	78.4	77.0	77.3	78.0
	Total	141.0	140.7	135.9	155.2	156.3	154.4	153.0
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	92.8	95.6	102.6	96.5	100.1	92.3	97.6
	Female	65.1	68.5	76.3	73.9	73.3	74.5	71.5
	Total	157.9	164.2	178.9	170.4	173.5	166.8	169.1
Unemployed
	Male	10.2	8.8	8.7	6.5	[4.8]	*	*
	Female	6.9	6.4	[4.9]	[3.8]	*	*	*
	Total	17.1	15.3	13.6	10.3	7.2	[7.3]	[5.4]
Not in the labour force
	Male	16.6	16.8	15.5	14.4	16.4	18.5	13.7
	Female	41.6	39.7	40.1	36.8	37.2	36.3	37.4
	Total	58.2	56.6	55.5	51.2	53.7	54.7	51.0
Total
	Male	119.7	121.3	126.7	117.4	121.3	115.3	113.7
	Female	113.6	114.7	121.2	114.6	112.9	113.6	111.9
	Total	233.2	236.0	248.0	232.0	234.3	228.9	225.5
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	15.4	13.7	13.6	13.3	16.4	17.1	19.7
	Total	17.1	15.6	15.0	15.7	19.3	20.8	22.9
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.4]	[3.3]	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	[2.6]	[2.7]	*	*	*	*
	Female	14.4	14.0	15.4	15.0	14.9	9.4	13.6
	Total	16.2	16.6	18.1	16.8	16.5	11.3	15.8
Total
	Male	[3.7]	5.0	4.6	4.5	[4.6]	[6.0]	5.7
	Female	33.1	30.4	30.9	30.3	32.9	28.0	34.7
	Total	36.7	35.4	35.5	34.8	37.6	34.0	40.4
All family units
In employment
	Male	130.9	132.9	138.8	138.3	144.3	135.7	140.7
	Female	111.2	110.5	117.8	122.2	121.9	124.0	128.0
	Total	242.1	243.4	256.6	260.5	266.2	259.7	268.7
Unemployed
	Male	13.7	13.0	11.6	9.3	6.6	[6.0]	*
	Female	12.8	11.0	7.9	8.0	[6.2]	[5.5]	[5.2]
	Total	26.5	24.0	19.5	17.2	12.8	11.5	9.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	49.0	51.0	49.6	51.2	54.3	56.6	49.6
	Female	93.4	93.7	93.7	93.1	94.8	89.4	91.4
	Total	142.4	144.8	143.3	144.3	149.1	146.0	141.0
Total
	Male	193.6	196.9	200.0	198.7	205.2	198.3	194.4
	Female	217.4	215.2	219.4	223.3	222.9	218.9	224.5
	Total	411.0	412.1	419.4	422.0	428.1	417.3	418.9
Border
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	16.3	16.4	16.8	19.8	18.5	16.8	18.5
	Female	14.0	13.3	12.4	17.1	13.8	13.7	15.5
	Total	30.2	29.7	29.2	36.9	32.3	30.6	34.0
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	14.7	15.7	13.6	16.6	16.6	18.3	15.8
	Female	17.8	18.6	17.7	19.6	19.3	21.7	21.3
	Total	32.5	34.3	31.3	36.2	35.9	40.1	37.1
Total
	Male	32.1	33.3	31.3	37.4	35.8	35.8	34.7
	Female	32.7	32.7	30.7	37.4	33.7	35.9	36.9
	Total	64.9	66.0	62.0	74.8	69.5	71.7	71.7
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	43.1	45.4	46.7	46.3	50.4	42.8	44.1
	Female	30.1	33.2	36.3	35.8	34.6	33.6	32.4
	Total	73.3	78.6	83.0	82.1	85.0	76.4	76.5
Unemployed
	Male	4.3	[3.4]	[3.9]	[2.6]	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	7.1	6.5	5.3	[4.1]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	9.4	8.8	8.1	7.3	7.9	8.1	7.2
	Female	20.4	18.1	17.9	14.7	16.3	16.8	17.4
	Total	29.8	27.0	26.0	22.0	24.2	24.9	24.6
Total
	Male	56.7	57.6	58.7	56.1	59.6	52.0	51.7
	Female	53.4	54.4	55.6	52.0	51.6	52.4	51.5
	Total	110.2	112.0	114.3	108.2	111.2	104.4	103.2
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.7	6.6	7.8	6.5	8.9	9.3	9.3
	Total	7.4	7.5	8.5	7.7	10.5	10.6	11.4
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.0	7.2	7.4	7.2	7.4	[4.1]	6.1
	Total	7.9	8.3	9.0	8.2	7.9	[5.3]	7.2
Total
	Male	*	*	[2.6]	*	*	*	[3.5]
	Female	15.0	15.0	16.2	14.2	16.9	13.9	15.7
	Total	16.6	17.4	18.8	16.3	19.0	16.3	19.2
All family units
In employment
	Male	60.1	62.7	64.2	67.2	70.5	60.9	64.7
	Female	50.8	53.1	56.5	59.4	57.3	56.7	57.2
	Total	110.9	115.8	120.7	126.7	127.8	117.6	121.9
Unemployed
	Male	5.4	5.0	5.1	[3.6]	*	*	*
	Female	5.2	[5.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	10.6	10.2	8.1	6.3	[3.9]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	25.0	25.5	23.4	24.9	25.0	27.6	24.1
	Female	45.2	44.0	43.0	41.5	43.0	42.7	44.8
	Total	70.2	69.5	66.3	66.4	68.1	70.3	68.9
Total
	Male	90.5	93.3	92.7	95.7	97.5	90.3	89.9
	Female	101.2	102.2	102.5	103.7	102.2	102.2	104.1
	Total	191.7	195.5	195.2	199.3	199.7	192.5	194.0
West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	20.1	19.0	18.1	19.6	22.8	22.8	21.4
	Female	16.8	14.9	15.4	17.9	18.4	18.7	21.3
	Total	36.9	33.9	33.5	37.5	41.2	41.5	42.7
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.8]	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	15.8	15.9	17.8	18.4	19.7	17.9	17.9
	Female	19.6	21.4	20.6	21.7	23.3	22.0	19.2
	Total	35.5	37.4	38.4	40.1	43.0	39.9	37.1
Total
	Male	38.2	37.3	37.3	39.4	43.4	41.2	40.3
	Female	38.0	37.4	36.6	41.0	43.3	41.4	41.1
	Total	76.2	74.7	73.8	80.4	86.8	82.6	81.4
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	49.7	50.3	55.9	50.2	49.7	49.5	53.6
	Female	35.0	35.4	40.0	38.1	38.7	40.9	39.1
	Total	84.7	85.6	95.9	88.3	88.4	90.4	92.6
Unemployed
	Male	6.0	5.4	[4.8]	[4.0]	[3.5]	*	*
	Female	[4.0]	[3.3]	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	10.0	8.7	8.3	6.2	[5.2]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	7.2	8.0	7.3	7.1	8.5	10.4	6.5
	Female	21.2	21.6	22.2	22.1	20.9	19.5	20.0
	Total	28.4	29.6	29.5	29.2	29.4	29.8	26.5
Total
	Male	62.9	63.7	68.0	61.3	61.7	63.3	62.0
	Female	60.2	60.3	65.6	62.5	61.4	61.2	60.4
	Total	123.1	124.0	133.7	123.8	123.1	124.5	122.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.7	7.1	5.8	6.7	7.6	7.8	10.3
	Total	9.7	8.0	6.4	8.0	8.8	10.2	11.4
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.3	6.7	8.0	7.8	7.5	[5.3]	7.4
	Total	8.3	8.3	9.1	8.6	8.6	[6.0]	8.5
Total
	Male	*	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	18.0	15.3	14.7	16.2	16.0	14.1	19.0
	Total	20.1	18.0	16.7	18.5	18.6	17.7	21.2
All family units
In employment
	Male	70.8	70.2	74.6	71.1	73.8	74.8	76.0
	Female	60.5	57.4	61.2	62.7	64.7	67.3	70.8
	Total	131.3	127.6	135.8	133.8	138.5	142.1	146.8
Unemployed
	Male	8.3	8.0	6.5	5.7	[4.5]	*	*
	Female	7.6	5.8	[4.9]	[5.3]	*	*	*
	Total	15.9	13.8	11.4	11.0	8.9	[6.9]	[6.0]
Not in the labour force
	Male	24.0	25.5	26.2	26.3	29.3	29.0	25.5
	Female	48.1	49.8	50.8	51.6	51.7	46.7	46.6
	Total	72.2	75.3	77.0	77.9	81.0	75.7	72.1
Total
	Male	103.1	103.6	107.3	103.1	107.7	108.0	104.5
	Female	116.2	113.0	116.9	119.7	120.8	116.7	120.4
	Total	219.3	216.7	224.2	222.7	228.4	224.8	224.9
Southern
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	63.5	61.7	70.4	66.9	66.4	71.7	68.6
	Female	58.0	54.4	59.4	56.7	62.0	56.8	57.5
	Total	121.5	116.1	129.9	123.6	128.4	128.5	126.1
Unemployed
	Male	7.0	6.2	6.0	[3.7]	*	*	*
	Female	5.4	[5.4]	[4.6]	*	*	*	*
	Total	12.4	11.6	10.7	6.8	[5.7]	[5.7]	[4.6]
Not in the labour force
	Male	65.8	66.4	61.3	61.0	68.3	66.0	69.5
	Female	71.2	71.0	69.5	68.3	78.8	80.4	79.9
	Total	137.0	137.4	130.8	129.3	147.2	146.4	149.4
Total
	Male	136.3	134.3	137.8	131.5	137.9	140.8	140.3
	Female	134.6	130.8	133.6	128.2	143.3	139.8	139.8
	Total	270.9	265.1	271.4	259.7	281.3	280.6	280.1
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	176.9	181.6	187.5	195.8	197.1	198.6	186.6
	Female	131.2	137.6	139.5	142.3	146.4	143.7	141.2
	Total	308.1	319.2	327.1	338.2	343.5	342.3	327.8
Unemployed
	Male	23.4	19.7	17.6	12.9	8.4	[7.0]	[5.9]
	Female	16.3	11.9	11.3	9.1	*	[4.8]	[5.6]
	Total	39.7	31.6	28.9	22.0	12.4	11.8	11.5
Not in the labour force
	Male	28.0	27.4	24.3	27.9	27.3	25.2	26.2
	Female	71.0	71.6	70.2	78.7	75.6	66.3	71.8
	Total	99.0	99.1	94.5	106.6	102.9	91.4	98.0
Total
	Male	228.3	228.8	229.5	236.7	232.8	230.8	218.8
	Female	218.5	221.1	221.0	230.1	226.0	214.8	218.6
	Total	446.8	449.9	450.5	466.8	458.9	445.6	437.4
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	4.5	4.7	4.5	[4.1]	[4.0]	[7.2]	8.4
	Female	27.3	25.0	26.6	28.5	28.4	36.7	33.1
	Total	31.8	29.7	31.1	32.6	32.3	43.9	41.6
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.1	6.1	7.4	[4.8]	[4.1]	*	*
	Total	9.4	7.2	8.1	[5.8]	[4.1]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	3.6	4.4	[3.3]	[4.1]	[3.7]	*	[4.4]
	Female	25.7	27.9	25.7	26.5	25.6	25.9	28.8
	Total	29.3	32.3	29.0	30.6	29.3	28.5	33.1
Total
	Male	9.5	10.2	8.4	9.2	7.7	10.0	13.4
	Female	61.0	59.1	59.8	59.8	58.1	65.7	65.4
	Total	70.5	69.3	68.2	69.0	65.7	75.7	78.8
All family units
In employment
	Male	244.9	248.0	262.5	266.8	267.5	277.5	263.7
	Female	216.5	217.0	225.6	227.6	236.8	237.2	231.8
	Total	461.4	465.0	488.1	494.3	504.3	514.7	495.5
Unemployed
	Male	31.7	27.0	24.3	17.6	11.6	10.2	8.7
	Female	29.8	23.4	23.4	17.0	10.6	10.6	11.5
	Total	61.5	50.4	47.6	34.6	22.2	20.8	20.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	97.5	98.3	88.9	93.0	99.3	93.8	100.0
	Female	167.8	170.6	165.4	173.4	180.1	172.5	180.5
	Total	265.3	268.9	254.4	266.5	279.3	266.4	280.5
Total
	Male	374.1	373.3	375.7	377.4	378.4	381.5	372.5
	Female	414.1	410.9	414.4	418.0	427.5	420.4	423.8
	Total	788.2	784.3	790.1	795.4	805.9	801.9	796.3
Mid-West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	19.7	19.1	20.4	20.2	19.1	21.7	20.8
	Female	17.9	16.0	18.0	18.6	16.9	17.3	18.6
	Total	37.7	35.2	38.3	38.8	36.0	39.0	39.4
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[4.2]	*	[4.0]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	20.9	20.9	19.5	18.3	18.3	19.3	20.8
	Female	20.3	23.5	20.9	20.6	22.6	24.3	22.4
	Total	41.2	44.5	40.4	38.9	40.9	43.6	43.1
Total
	Male	42.8	41.5	42.2	39.6	38.7	41.9	42.1
	Female	40.3	41.5	40.5	40.6	40.7	42.8	41.5
	Total	83.0	83.0	82.7	80.2	79.5	84.7	83.6
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	54.3	53.9	60.0	59.3	58.1	60.5	55.6
	Female	40.4	40.8	43.1	44.7	45.4	40.3	43.2
	Total	94.7	94.8	103.0	104.1	103.5	100.9	98.8
Unemployed
	Male	9.3	6.8	[5.2]	[4.4]	*	*	*
	Female	6.8	[5.1]	[4.7]	*	*	*	*
	Total	16.1	11.9	9.9	8.2	[4.7]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	8.1	6.9	8.2	8.4	7.6	6.8	7.5
	Female	18.9	19.9	21.8	23.5	20.4	22.4	20.2
	Total	27.0	26.8	30.0	31.9	28.1	29.2	27.7
Total
	Male	71.6	67.6	73.4	72.1	69.3	69.3	65.2
	Female	66.2	65.9	69.5	72.1	66.9	63.8	65.1
	Total	137.8	133.5	142.9	144.2	136.2	133.1	130.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.8	6.8	7.4	6.8	8.2	11.7	9.6
	Total	8.9	8.7	9.0	8.3	9.5	13.6	11.4
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.3]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.7]	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.9	7.6	5.7	7.5	8.4	7.0	8.4
	Total	8.0	8.7	6.7	8.9	10.1	7.4	8.9
Total
	Male	[2.7]	[3.3]	[2.9]	[3.6]	*	*	*
	Female	18.0	16.7	16.2	15.8	19.1	19.3	18.9
	Total	20.7	20.0	19.1	19.4	22.0	21.5	21.2
All family units
In employment
	Male	75.1	75.0	82.0	81.0	78.6	84.1	78.2
	Female	66.2	63.7	68.4	70.1	70.4	69.4	71.4
	Total	141.3	138.6	150.4	151.1	149.0	153.4	149.6
Unemployed
	Male	11.9	8.6	7.8	6.3	[4.9]	*	*
	Female	12.1	9.3	9.4	[6.8]	[4.7]	*	*
	Total	24.0	17.9	17.3	13.0	9.6	[5.7]	[5.7]
Not in the labour force
	Male	30.1	28.9	28.8	28.0	27.5	26.5	28.8
	Female	46.1	51.1	48.4	51.6	51.5	53.7	51.0
	Total	76.2	80.0	77.1	79.7	79.0	80.2	79.8
Total
	Male	117.1	112.5	118.6	115.3	111.0	113.3	109.6
	Female	124.5	124.1	126.2	128.5	126.6	126.0	125.5
	Total	241.5	236.5	244.7	243.8	237.6	239.3	235.1
South-East
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	17.7	16.7	17.8	18.7	19.5	19.2	15.0
	Female	16.6	15.9	14.9	14.2	19.1	16.2	11.6
	Total	34.4	32.6	32.7	33.0	38.6	35.5	26.7
Unemployed
	Male	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	3.7	[2.4]	[2.7]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	18.2	18.1	16.9	17.1	20.1	18.3	19.1
	Female	21.6	19.6	19.7	18.4	23.2	21.5	23.2
	Total	39.8	37.7	36.6	35.6	43.3	39.7	42.3
Total
	Male	38.2	36.4	36.5	37.1	40.2	38.3	34.1
	Female	39.7	36.3	35.5	33.6	42.5	38.2	35.7
	Total	77.9	72.7	72.0	70.8	82.7	76.6	69.8
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	43.4	46.4	47.3	49.5	49.8	48.5	52.3
	Female	32.2	37.2	37.9	36.0	37.6	36.6	38.9
	Total	75.6	83.6	85.2	85.6	87.3	85.2	91.2
Unemployed
	Male	6.5	5.6	4.9	[3.7]	*	*	*
	Female	4.5	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	11.0	7.5	6.8	6.2	[3.4]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	8.3	9.1	5.5	7.0	8.8	7.6	7.3
	Female	20.2	19.6	17.1	20.5	22.3	16.5	21.1
	Total	28.6	28.7	22.6	27.5	31.0	24.1	28.4
Total
	Male	58.2	61.1	57.7	60.2	60.9	58.0	61.8
	Female	56.9	58.7	56.9	59.1	60.8	54.4	62.5
	Total	115.1	119.8	114.6	119.3	121.7	112.4	124.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.2	6.9	7.2	9.9	7.8	10.3	9.0
	Total	8.0	7.7	8.9	10.8	9.1	12.5	11.2
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.6	8.3	8.5	7.0	6.3	7.7	[6.7]
	Total	8.7	9.6	9.5	8.0	7.5	9.1	8.2
Total
	Male	*	*	[2.7]	*	*	*	*
	Female	16.3	16.5	17.3	17.5	14.8	19.6	16.5
	Total	18.5	18.7	20.0	19.7	17.4	23.1	20.4
All family units
In employment
	Male	62.0	63.9	66.7	69.2	70.6	70.0	69.5
	Female	56.0	59.9	60.1	60.2	64.4	63.2	59.5
	Total	118.0	123.8	126.8	129.3	135.0	133.1	129.0
Unemployed
	Male	9.0	7.3	6.7	5.2	[3.0]	*	*
	Female	7.5	4.2	4.4	[4.1]	*	*	*
	Total	16.5	11.5	11.1	9.3	5.0	[6.0]	[6.6]
Not in the labour force
	Male	27.6	28.6	23.4	25.2	30.1	27.2	27.9
	Female	49.4	47.5	45.3	45.9	51.7	45.7	51.0
	Total	77.0	76.0	68.7	71.1	81.8	72.9	78.9
Total
	Male	98.6	99.7	96.8	99.5	103.7	99.9	99.8
	Female	112.9	111.5	109.7	110.2	118.1	112.2	114.7
	Total	211.5	211.3	206.5	209.8	221.8	212.1	214.5
South-West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	26.0	25.9	32.3	28.0	27.8	30.8	32.8
	Female	23.4	22.5	26.5	23.9	26.0	23.2	27.2
	Total	49.4	48.3	58.8	51.9	53.9	54.0	60.0
Unemployed
	Male	[2.6]	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.5	5.8	[4.0]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	26.7	27.3	24.9	25.6	29.9	28.4	29.6
	Female	29.3	27.9	28.9	29.3	33.1	34.6	34.4
	Total	56.0	55.2	53.8	54.8	63.0	63.1	64.0
Total
	Male	55.4	56.4	59.1	54.7	59.0	60.6	64.1
	Female	54.6	52.9	57.6	54.0	60.1	58.8	62.6
	Total	110.0	109.3	116.7	108.7	119.1	119.3	126.7
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	79.2	81.3	80.3	87.0	89.3	89.5	78.7
	Female	58.6	59.5	58.6	61.6	63.5	66.8	59.1
	Total	137.8	140.8	138.9	148.5	152.8	156.3	137.8
Unemployed
	Male	7.7	7.3	7.5	[4.9]	*	*	*
	Female	4.9	[4.9]	[4.8]	*	*	*	*
	Total	12.6	12.2	12.2	7.6	[4.4]	[5.7]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.6	11.4	10.6	12.5	10.9	10.8	11.4
	Female	31.9	32.1	31.2	34.6	32.9	27.3	30.4
	Total	43.4	43.6	41.9	47.1	43.8	38.1	41.9
Total
	Male	98.5	100.0	98.4	104.4	102.6	103.5	91.8
	Female	95.4	96.5	94.6	98.9	98.4	96.6	91.0
	Total	193.9	196.6	193.0	203.2	201.0	200.1	182.8
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	[2.6]	*	*	*	*	*	[4.5]
	Female	12.3	11.4	12.0	11.8	12.4	14.6	14.5
	Total	14.8	13.4	13.3	13.4	13.7	17.8	19.0
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.3]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.8]	*	[3.0]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	11.1	12.0	11.6	12.0	10.9	11.2	13.7
	Total	12.6	14.1	12.9	13.7	11.8	12.1	16.1
Total
	Male	4.5	4.7	[2.9]	[3.5]	*	[4.2]	7.2
	Female	26.7	25.9	26.3	26.4	24.2	26.9	30.0
	Total	31.3	30.6	29.1	29.9	26.3	31.1	37.2
All family units
In employment
	Male	107.8	109.2	113.8	116.6	118.3	123.5	116.0
	Female	94.3	93.4	97.1	97.3	102.0	104.7	100.8
	Total	202.1	202.6	211.0	213.9	220.3	228.1	216.8
Unemployed
	Male	10.8	11.1	9.7	6.2	*	[4.7]	*
	Female	10.1	9.9	9.6	[6.2]	*	*	*
	Total	20.9	21.0	19.3	12.3	7.6	9.1	[7.9]
Not in the labour force
	Male	39.8	40.8	36.8	39.8	41.6	40.1	43.4
	Female	72.3	72.0	71.8	75.9	76.9	73.1	78.5
	Total	112.1	112.8	108.5	115.7	118.5	113.3	121.9
Total
	Male	158.4	161.1	160.3	162.6	163.7	168.3	163.1
	Female	176.7	175.3	178.5	179.3	182.7	182.2	183.6
	Total	335.1	336.5	338.8	341.9	346.4	350.5	346.6
Eastern and Midland
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	93.8	101.5	97.4	104.8	100.7	117.5	110.8
	Female	81.7	89.4	85.5	94.9	90.0	102.9	91.5
	Total	175.5	190.9	182.9	199.6	190.7	220.5	202.3
Unemployed
	Male	9.0	7.8	6.0	[4.9]	*	*	*
	Female	[5.3]	[4.7]	[5.7]	[5.9]	*	*	*
	Total	14.4	12.5	11.7	10.8	[5.7]	[8.5]	[5.4]
Not in the labour force
	Male	76.4	76.2	82.5	79.5	78.5	81.1	84.7
	Female	88.9	84.2	88.2	86.3	84.4	93.9	101.3
	Total	165.4	160.4	170.8	165.9	162.9	175.0	186.0
Total
	Male	179.3	185.5	185.9	189.1	182.1	202.1	197.4
	Female	176.0	178.3	179.4	187.1	177.2	201.9	196.2
	Total	355.3	363.7	365.3	376.3	359.3	404.0	393.7
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	252.6	259.2	270.1	264.6	276.1	277.9	285.1
	Female	182.1	182.8	188.9	191.3	203.6	212.9	215.2
	Total	434.7	442.0	459.0	455.9	479.7	490.8	500.3
Unemployed
	Male	34.6	25.8	20.2	18.6	14.2	8.9	8.4
	Female	23.6	17.3	14.9	14.9	7.8	9.2	[7.2]
	Total	58.2	43.1	35.1	33.5	22.0	18.1	15.6
Not in the labour force
	Male	43.1	41.1	42.7	40.5	45.2	37.8	38.9
	Female	118.5	118.0	114.4	113.0	118.1	97.7	98.7
	Total	161.7	159.1	157.2	153.5	163.3	135.5	137.6
Total
	Male	330.3	326.1	333.0	323.7	335.6	324.6	332.4
	Female	324.3	318.1	318.3	319.2	329.5	319.8	321.1
	Total	654.6	644.2	651.2	642.9	665.1	644.4	653.5
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	5.5	5.6	5.8	6.9	7.7	13.4	16.8
	Female	43.5	41.9	44.2	46.9	52.1	53.6	63.8
	Total	49.0	47.5	50.0	53.8	59.8	66.9	80.7
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	13.0	8.6	7.2	[6.3]	7.5	[6.0]	*
	Total	14.8	10.1	8.4	7.1	8.6	[6.5]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	6.4	6.2	6.0	[5.4]	[5.4]	[5.2]	[4.7]
	Female	40.6	42.7	46.2	44.8	47.3	42.7	41.9
	Total	47.0	48.9	52.2	50.2	52.7	47.9	46.6
Total
	Male	13.7	13.2	13.1	13.0	14.1	19.1	22.2
	Female	97.0	93.2	97.6	98.0	107.0	102.2	109.1
	Total	110.7	106.4	110.7	111.1	121.0	121.3	131.3
All family units
In employment
	Male	351.8	366.3	373.3	376.3	384.4	408.8	412.7
	Female	307.3	314.0	318.6	333.1	345.7	369.4	370.5
	Total	659.2	680.4	691.9	709.4	730.2	778.2	783.3
Unemployed
	Male	45.5	35.0	27.4	24.2	18.2	12.8	11.0
	Female	41.9	30.6	27.8	27.1	18.1	20.3	14.0
	Total	87.4	65.6	55.2	51.3	36.3	33.1	25.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	126.0	123.5	131.3	125.4	129.1	124.1	128.3
	Female	248.0	244.9	248.9	244.2	249.9	234.3	241.9
	Total	374.0	368.4	380.2	369.5	378.9	358.4	370.2
Total
	Male	523.3	524.8	532.0	525.8	531.7	545.7	552.0
	Female	597.3	589.5	595.2	604.4	613.7	624.0	626.4
	Total	1,120.6	1,114.3	1,127.2	1,130.2	1,145.4	1,169.7	1,178.5
Dublin
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	55.9	61.3	59.1	66.3	64.6	73.4	67.4
	Female	49.4	55.9	52.7	59.2	58.2	66.2	56.5
	Total	105.3	117.2	111.8	125.4	122.8	139.5	123.9
Unemployed
	Male	[4.7]	[3.7]	[3.7]	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	7.6	6.1	5.9	[6.2]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	44.6	42.7	48.7	44.5	44.7	43.5	46.4
	Female	50.8	45.0	49.7	50.9	49.4	49.8	56.3
	Total	95.3	87.7	98.4	95.4	94.1	93.3	102.7
Total
	Male	105.2	107.7	111.5	113.5	111.2	119.3	114.7
	Female	103.0	103.2	104.6	113.5	108.9	118.3	114.5
	Total	208.2	211.0	216.1	227.0	220.1	237.6	229.2
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	134.3	138.3	145.3	135.9	147.8	151.5	156.2
	Female	100.5	98.9	101.6	105.8	109.1	118.3	116.8
	Total	234.7	237.2	246.9	241.7	256.8	269.9	273.0
Unemployed
	Male	14.8	11.2	8.9	10.1	6.4	*	*
	Female	9.8	9.2	7.9	[6.8]	[4.5]	*	*
	Total	24.6	20.4	16.8	16.9	10.9	[8.1]	[7.3]
Not in the labour force
	Male	25.9	25.1	25.2	21.8	24.0	21.3	19.2
	Female	64.6	63.4	63.2	57.2	63.4	51.5	54.1
	Total	90.5	88.4	88.4	79.0	87.3	72.8	73.3
Total
	Male	174.9	174.5	179.3	167.8	178.1	176.7	179.8
	Female	174.9	171.5	172.7	169.7	177.0	174.0	173.8
	Total	349.8	346.0	352.0	337.5	355.0	350.7	353.6
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	[3.7]	[2.9]	[3.3]	[4.8]	[4.5]	[7.7]	11.0
	Female	27.2	24.9	27.4	27.8	33.8	32.6	39.5
	Total	30.9	27.8	30.7	32.7	38.3	40.3	50.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.0	[4.3]	[3.3]	*	[4.5]	*	*
	Total	8.0	5.3	[4.1]	[3.9]	[4.9]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	[4.1]	[4.1]	*	[3.6]	[4.1]	*	*
	Female	26.2	25.3	29.5	29.5	28.6	21.6	24.5
	Total	30.3	29.4	32.3	33.1	32.7	24.1	27.7
Total
	Male	8.7	8.0	6.8	8.9	9.0	10.4	14.4
	Female	60.4	54.6	60.2	60.8	66.9	57.4	65.4
	Total	69.1	62.5	67.0	69.7	75.9	67.8	79.8
All family units
In employment
	Male	193.9	202.6	207.7	207.1	216.8	232.6	234.6
	Female	177.1	179.7	181.6	192.8	201.1	217.1	212.7
	Total	371.0	382.3	389.3	399.8	417.9	449.7	447.3
Unemployed
	Male	20.4	15.9	13.3	13.3	8.7	[6.5]	[5.6]
	Female	19.7	15.9	13.4	13.7	10.3	9.8	[6.1]
	Total	40.1	31.7	26.7	27.0	18.9	16.2	11.6
Not in the labour force
	Male	74.6	71.9	76.7	69.9	72.7	67.3	68.7
	Female	141.6	133.7	142.4	137.6	141.4	122.8	135.0
	Total	216.1	205.5	219.1	207.4	214.2	190.1	203.7
Total
	Male	288.8	290.3	297.7	290.2	298.2	306.4	308.9
	Female	338.3	329.3	337.4	344.1	352.8	349.7	353.8
	Total	627.2	619.5	635.1	634.2	651.0	656.1	662.7
Mid-East
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	26.9	27.7	25.6	28.2	26.6	31.1	30.6
	Female	23.3	23.7	22.2	26.8	25.0	25.2	24.0
	Total	50.2	51.5	47.8	55.0	51.7	56.3	54.6
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.7]	[5.0]	[4.0]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	20.8	23.0	22.6	22.2	22.8	24.7	25.3
	Female	24.6	26.7	24.7	22.6	22.9	29.8	29.5
	Total	45.4	49.7	47.2	44.8	45.7	54.5	54.8
Total
	Male	50.1	53.6	49.4	51.7	50.3	56.6	56.6
	Female	49.2	52.5	49.7	51.2	49.2	56.7	54.8
	Total	99.2	106.2	99.0	102.9	99.4	113.4	111.5
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	87.5	87.5	91.2	93.0	92.3	92.5	93.1
	Female	60.1	61.8	66.4	64.7	70.6	70.6	71.9
	Total	147.6	149.3	157.6	157.7	162.9	163.2	165.0
Unemployed
	Male	13.6	9.2	6.6	[6.2]	*	*	*
	Female	9.9	[5.4]	[4.7]	[5.9]	*	*	*
	Total	23.5	14.7	11.3	12.0	[7.0]	[6.1]	[4.8]
Not in the labour force
	Male	10.5	10.5	13.0	13.2	13.4	11.0	13.5
	Female	36.4	35.6	33.6	36.5	36.5	32.6	29.5
	Total	46.9	46.1	46.6	49.7	49.8	43.6	43.0
Total
	Male	111.6	107.2	110.8	112.3	110.1	106.8	109.1
	Female	106.4	102.8	104.8	107.2	109.6	106.1	103.7
	Total	218.0	210.0	215.5	219.5	219.7	212.9	212.8
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	12.0	12.3	13.0	13.9	11.6	15.3	18.6
	Total	12.8	14.3	15.2	15.0	13.5	18.5	22.9
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[4.6]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[5.3]	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	9.1	11.9	11.2	10.3	13.0	13.2	11.0
	Total	10.4	13.3	13.1	11.4	13.8	15.3	11.9
Total
	Male	[2.8]	[3.8]	[4.3]	*	*	[5.6]	[5.4]
	Female	25.7	26.7	27.1	25.8	26.6	29.9	30.9
	Total	28.5	30.4	31.4	28.4	29.6	35.4	36.2
All family units
In employment
	Male	115.2	117.2	118.9	122.3	120.7	126.7	127.9
	Female	95.4	97.9	101.7	105.4	107.3	111.2	114.5
	Total	210.6	215.1	220.6	227.7	228.0	237.9	242.5
Unemployed
	Male	16.7	12.6	8.2	7.7	[5.7]	[4.5]	*
	Female	15.8	9.9	10.3	[9.4]	[5.7]	[5.9]	[4.9]
	Total	32.5	22.5	18.5	17.1	11.4	10.5	8.3
Not in the labour force
	Male	32.6	34.8	37.4	36.5	37.0	37.7	39.7
	Female	70.0	74.2	69.5	69.5	72.4	75.6	70.0
	Total	102.6	109.0	106.9	105.9	109.4	113.4	109.7
Total
	Male	164.5	164.6	164.5	166.5	163.4	169.0	171.1
	Female	181.3	182.0	181.5	184.2	185.4	192.7	189.4
	Total	345.8	346.6	346.0	350.7	348.8	361.7	360.5
Midland
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	11.0	12.4	12.7	10.3	9.4	13.1	12.9
	Female	9.0	9.8	10.6	8.9	6.8	11.5	11.0
	Total	20.0	22.2	23.3	19.2	16.2	24.6	23.8
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.1	10.5	11.3	12.8	11.0	12.9	13.0
	Female	13.6	12.5	13.9	12.8	12.0	14.3	15.5
	Total	24.7	23.0	25.1	25.7	23.1	27.2	28.4
Total
	Male	24.0	24.1	25.0	24.0	20.6	26.1	26.0
	Female	23.8	22.6	25.2	22.4	19.1	26.8	26.9
	Total	47.8	46.6	50.2	46.4	39.8	53.0	52.9
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	30.8	33.5	33.5	35.7	36.1	33.8	35.8
	Female	21.5	22.0	20.9	20.8	23.9	23.9	26.5
	Total	52.3	55.5	54.5	56.5	60.0	57.8	62.3
Unemployed
	Male	6.3	5.4	[4.7]	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.9]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	10.1	8.1	7.0	[4.5]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	6.7	5.6	[4.6]	[5.5]	7.9	[5.5]	[6.1]
	Female	17.5	19.0	17.6	19.3	18.3	13.7	15.1
	Total	24.3	24.6	22.2	24.8	26.2	19.2	21.3
Total
	Male	43.8	44.4	42.8	43.5	47.4	41.1	43.6
	Female	42.9	43.8	40.8	42.4	42.9	39.8	43.5
	Total	86.7	88.2	83.7	85.9	90.4	80.8	87.0
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	4.3	4.6	3.8	5.2	6.7	[5.6]	[5.8]
	Total	5.3	5.3	4.2	6.2	8.1	8.2	[7.3]
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	5.3	5.5	5.4	5.0	5.7	7.9	[6.3]
	Total	6.3	6.2	6.8	5.7	6.1	8.6	7.1
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	10.9	11.9	10.3	11.4	13.5	14.9	12.8
	Total	13.2	13.4	12.3	13.0	15.5	18.1	15.3
All family units
In employment
	Male	42.7	46.6	46.6	47.0	46.9	49.5	50.2
	Female	34.9	36.4	35.3	34.9	37.4	41.1	43.3
	Total	77.6	83.0	82.0	81.9	84.3	90.6	93.5
Unemployed
	Male	8.5	6.6	6.0	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.4	[4.8]	[4.1]	*	*	*	*
	Total	14.8	11.4	10.1	7.2	[6.0]	[6.4]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	18.8	16.8	17.2	19.0	19.4	19.0	19.8
	Female	36.5	37.0	36.9	37.2	36.0	35.9	36.9
	Total	55.3	53.8	54.2	56.1	55.4	54.9	56.7
Total
	Male	70.0	69.9	69.8	69.1	70.1	70.4	72.0
	Female	77.7	78.3	76.3	76.1	75.5	81.5	83.2
	Total	147.7	148.2	146.2	145.2	145.6	151.9	155.2
State
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	193.7	198.6	202.7	211.0	208.4	228.9	219.3
	Female	170.5	172.0	172.8	186.6	184.2	192.1	185.8
	Total	364.1	370.6	375.5	397.6	392.6	421.0	405.2
Unemployed
	Male	19.4	17.6	14.3	10.9	7.7	[7.6]	[5.6]
	Female	13.4	11.9	11.5	11.2	[7.5]	8.9	[6.6]
	Total	32.7	29.5	25.8	22.1	15.2	16.5	12.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	172.8	174.2	175.3	175.5	183.1	183.4	187.9
	Female	197.5	195.2	196.0	195.9	205.9	218.0	221.6
	Total	370.3	369.4	371.3	371.4	389.0	401.4	409.5
Total
	Male	385.8	390.4	392.2	397.4	399.2	419.8	412.8
	Female	381.4	379.2	380.3	393.7	397.6	419.1	414.1
	Total	767.2	769.6	772.6	791.2	796.8	838.9	826.8
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	522.3	536.5	560.2	556.9	573.4	568.8	569.4
	Female	378.5	388.9	404.7	407.6	423.3	431.1	427.8
	Total	900.8	925.3	964.9	964.5	996.7	999.9	997.2
Unemployed
	Male	68.3	54.4	46.5	38.0	27.4	20.4	16.7
	Female	46.8	35.6	31.1	27.8	14.2	16.9	15.8
	Total	115.0	90.0	77.6	65.8	41.6	37.2	32.5
Not in the labour force
	Male	87.7	85.4	82.5	82.8	88.9	81.5	78.7
	Female	231.1	229.4	224.7	228.5	231.0	200.3	207.9
	Total	318.8	314.8	307.2	311.3	319.9	281.7	286.7
Total
	Male	678.3	676.2	689.2	677.7	689.7	670.6	664.8
	Female	656.3	653.9	660.5	663.9	668.5	648.3	651.5
	Total	1,334.6	1,330.1	1,349.7	1,341.6	1,358.2	1,318.9	1,316.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	11.7	12.2	11.7	13.4	14.5	24.4	28.4
	Female	86.1	80.6	84.4	88.7	96.9	107.3	116.7
	Total	97.8	92.8	96.1	102.1	111.4	131.7	145.1
Unemployed
	Male	[3.2]	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	24.4	17.4	16.4	13.1	13.2	10.6	8.3
	Total	27.6	20.5	19.0	15.2	14.5	11.7	9.8
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.9	13.2	12.0	11.3	10.6	9.7	11.3
	Female	80.6	84.6	87.3	86.3	87.9	78.0	84.3
	Total	92.5	97.8	99.3	97.6	98.5	87.7	95.6
Total
	Male	26.8	28.5	26.2	26.8	26.3	35.1	41.3
	Female	191.1	182.6	188.2	188.1	198.0	195.9	209.2
	Total	217.9	211.1	214.4	214.9	224.3	231.0	250.5
All family units
In employment
	Male	727.6	747.3	774.6	781.4	796.3	822.0	817.2
	Female	635.1	641.5	661.9	682.8	704.5	730.6	730.3
	Total	1,362.7	1,388.8	1,436.5	1,464.2	1,500.7	1,552.6	1,547.5
Unemployed
	Male	90.9	75.1	63.3	51.0	36.4	29.0	23.8
	Female	84.5	64.9	59.1	52.1	34.9	36.4	30.7
	Total	175.4	140.0	122.3	103.2	71.3	65.4	54.5
Not in the labour force
	Male	272.4	272.8	269.8	269.6	282.7	274.5	277.9
	Female	509.2	509.2	508.0	510.7	524.7	496.3	513.8
	Total	781.6	782.0	777.8	780.3	807.4	770.8	791.7
Total
	Male	1,090.9	1,095.1	1,107.6	1,102.0	1,115.3	1,125.6	1,118.9
	Female	1,228.8	1,215.7	1,229.0	1,245.7	1,264.1	1,263.3	1,274.8
	Total	2,319.8	2,310.7	2,336.7	2,347.7	2,379.4	2,388.8	2,393.6
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
Note: The composition of the NUTS regions changed in 2016 and took effect in the LFS from Q1 2018. Data from Q1 2012 to Q4 2017 has also been revised to reflect these changes. Please see background notes of the Q1 2018 LFS release for additional information.

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Family unit type/ ILO Economic Status/ Sex		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Couple without children
At least one partner aged less than 45
In employment
	Male	91.4	93.4	90.6	95.3	94.3	104.1	93.3
	Female	87.0	85.5	84.5	92.0	89.8	96.0	83.9
	Total	178.4	178.8	175.1	187.3	184.0	200.1	177.2
Unemployed
	Male	8.0	6.0	[4.8]	[4.7]	*	*	*
	Female	[5.5]	[5.4]	[4.6]	[6.4]	*	*	*
	Total	13.5	11.4	9.3	11.1	[6.7]	[8.2]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	5.5	[3.6]	[4.0]	[5.9]	[5.4]	*	*
	Female	7.6	6.6	7.1	6.9	8.4	[6.8]	[8.1]
	Total	13.1	10.2	11.1	12.7	13.8	12.6	12.2
Total
	Male	104.9	103.0	99.4	105.9	102.7	113.0	98.7
	Female	100.1	97.5	96.2	105.2	101.9	107.9	94.9
	Total	205.0	200.4	195.5	211.1	204.5	220.8	193.6
Both partners aged 45 to 64
In employment
	Male	89.4	92.7	95.9	98.9	97.7	106.4	108.7
	Female	77.3	79.7	80.9	85.1	85.6	86.5	91.9
	Total	166.7	172.3	176.8	184.1	183.3	192.9	200.6
Unemployed
	Male	11.1	11.4	9.5	6.1	[4.6]	[4.5]	[4.3]
	Female	7.7	6.5	6.6	[4.8]	*	*	*
	Total	18.8	17.9	16.1	10.9	8.3	8.3	8.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	59.3	61.8	58.0	58.1	55.5	52.3	54.3
	Female	73.1	74.9	70.1	68.2	65.9	68.7	68.0
	Total	132.4	136.8	128.1	126.2	121.4	121.0	122.3
Total
	Male	159.9	165.9	163.4	163.1	157.8	163.1	167.3
	Female	158.1	161.1	157.7	158.1	155.2	159.0	163.6
	Total	317.9	327.0	321.1	321.2	313.0	322.1	330.9
At least one partner aged 65 or more
In employment
	Male	12.8	12.6	16.2	16.8	16.4	18.4	17.3
	Female	6.2	6.9	7.4	9.5	8.9	9.6	10.0
	Total	19.0	19.5	23.6	26.3	25.3	28.0	27.3
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	108.0	108.8	113.3	111.5	122.2	125.3	129.5
	Female	116.9	113.7	118.8	120.9	131.6	142.5	145.5
	Total	224.8	222.5	232.1	232.5	253.8	267.8	275.0
Total
	Male	121.0	121.5	129.4	128.5	138.7	143.7	146.8
	Female	123.2	120.6	126.5	130.4	140.6	152.2	155.5
	Total	244.3	242.1	255.9	258.9	279.3	295.9	302.4
Total all couples without children
In employment
Male		193.7	198.6	202.7	211.0	208.4	228.9	219.3
Female		170.5	172.0	172.8	186.6	184.2	192.1	185.8
Total		364.1	370.6	375.5	397.6	392.6	421.0	405.2
Unemployed
Male		19.4	17.6	14.3	10.9	7.7	[7.6]	[5.6]
Female		13.4	11.9	11.5	11.2	[7.5]	8.9	[6.6]
Total		32.7	29.5	25.8	22.1	15.2	16.5	12.2
Not in the labour force
Male		172.8	174.2	175.3	175.5	183.1	183.4	187.9
Female		197.5	195.2	196.0	195.9	205.9	218.0	221.6
Total		370.3	369.4	371.3	371.4	389.0	401.4	409.5
Total
Male		385.8	390.4	392.2	397.4	399.2	419.8	412.8
Female		381.4	379.2	380.3	393.7	397.6	419.1	414.1
Total		767.2	769.6	772.6	791.2	796.8	838.9	826.8

Couple with children
At least 1 child aged under 5 and no child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	226.1	226.5	236.0	225.3	225.7	206.9	208.1
	Female	163.6	166.6	173.0	168.0	169.9	158.4	151.3
	Total	389.7	393.0	409.0	393.3	395.6	365.3	359.4
Unemployed
	Male	32.6	22.2	17.7	14.4	11.1	[7.3]	[5.3]
	Female	22.2	14.6	12.2	10.9	[5.0]	[7.6]	[6.5]
	Total	54.9	36.8	29.9	25.3	16.1	14.9	11.8
Not in the labour force
	Male	17.4	11.7	12.6	9.6	13.8	13.7	13.2
	Female	75.4	68.7	68.8	66.3	68.1	55.7	60.0
	Total	92.8	80.4	81.5	75.9	81.9	69.4	73.2
Total
	Male	276.1	260.3	266.3	249.4	250.6	227.8	226.5
	Female	261.3	249.9	254.0	245.1	243.0	221.8	217.8
	Total	537.4	510.2	520.4	494.5	493.7	449.6	444.3
At least 1 child aged under 5 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	13.3	13.3	14.1	15.4	13.0	16.9	13.8
	Female	7.8	6.7	7.9	9.7	8.6	9.3	9.0
	Total	21.1	20.0	22.0	25.1	21.6	26.2	22.8
Unemployed
	Male	[3.7]	[3.9]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	5.0	4.8	[3.5]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	9.5	11.0	7.6	8.0	7.2	8.6	7.8
	Total	11.2	13.9	9.9	9.9	9.9	10.6	10.8
Total
	Male	18.7	20.1	18.9	19.3	17.3	20.5	18.3
	Female	18.6	18.7	16.5	18.6	16.8	18.8	17.6
	Total	37.3	38.7	35.4	37.9	34.1	39.3	35.8
All children aged 5 to 14
In employment
	Male	91.4	95.5	99.7	103.2	112.5	118.6	119.3
	Female	65.0	71.7	72.8	79.8	84.6	89.8	93.1
	Total	156.4	167.1	172.5	182.9	197.1	208.4	212.4
Unemployed
	Male	7.7	10.0	8.9	7.3	[4.3]	*	*
	Female	10.0	7.0	6.6	[6.4]	*	*	*
	Total	17.7	17.0	15.4	13.7	7.0	[7.1]	[7.3]
Not in the labour force
	Male	7.6	7.5	7.6	8.1	6.9	8.1	7.6
	Female	28.1	31.3	32.6	31.1	32.5	30.8	30.4
	Total	35.8	38.8	40.2	39.2	39.5	38.9	37.9
Total
	Male	106.7	112.9	116.2	118.6	123.7	130.5	130.4
	Female	103.1	110.0	111.9	117.3	119.8	123.9	127.2
	Total	209.8	222.9	228.2	235.9	243.5	254.3	257.6
No child aged under 5, at least 1 child aged 5 to 14 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	68.1	71.9	75.2	71.6	82.9	86.2	81.7
	Female	45.9	48.4	51.4	48.2	55.4	61.9	61.5
	Total	114.0	120.3	126.6	119.8	138.2	148.1	143.2
Unemployed
	Male	10.3	5.8	7.9	6.1	[5.6]	*	*
	Female	5.8	[4.8]	[4.9]	[4.2]	*	*	*
	Total	16.2	10.6	12.8	10.2	8.1	[6.2]	[5.2]
Not in the labour force
	Male	8.2	7.9	6.5	8.2	8.9	9.2	8.7
	Female	31.2	29.5	30.6	30.6	33.1	29.1	27.1
	Total	39.5	37.4	37.1	38.8	42.0	38.3	35.8
Total
	Male	86.6	85.7	89.6	85.9	97.3	99.3	93.2
	Female	83.0	82.7	86.9	83.0	91.0	93.3	91.0
	Total	169.6	168.3	176.5	168.9	188.3	192.6	184.2
All children aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	123.4	129.3	135.2	141.5	139.3	140.3	146.5
	Female	96.2	95.5	99.6	101.9	104.9	111.6	112.9
	Total	219.6	224.8	234.8	243.4	244.2	251.9	259.3
Unemployed
	Male	13.9	12.5	9.4	8.1	[4.8]	[3.8]	*
	Female	7.4	8.3	6.5	[5.6]	*	*	*
	Total	21.3	20.8	16.0	13.6	7.8	6.6	[6.1]
Not in the labour force
	Male	52.8	55.4	53.5	55.0	56.6	48.5	46.2
	Female	86.8	88.9	85.0	92.4	90.0	76.1	82.7
	Total	139.6	144.3	138.5	147.5	146.6	124.6	129.0
Total
	Male	190.1	197.3	198.1	204.6	200.7	192.6	196.4
	Female	190.4	192.7	191.2	199.9	197.9	190.5	197.9
	Total	380.5	390.0	389.3	404.5	398.6	383.1	394.3
Total couples with children
In employment
Male		522.3	536.5	560.2	556.9	573.4	568.8	569.4
Female		378.5	388.9	404.7	407.6	423.3	431.1	427.8
Total		900.8	925.3	964.9	964.5	996.7	999.9	997.2
Unemployed
Male		68.3	54.4	46.5	38.0	27.4	20.4	16.7
Female		46.8	35.6	31.1	27.8	14.2	16.9	15.8
Total		115.0	90.0	77.6	65.8	41.6	37.2	32.5
Not in the labour force
Male		87.7	85.4	82.5	82.8	88.9	81.5	78.7
Female		231.1	229.4	224.7	228.5	231.0	200.3	207.9
Total		318.8	314.8	307.2	311.3	319.9	281.7	286.7
Total
Male		678.3	676.2	689.2	677.7	689.7	670.6	664.8
Female		656.3	653.9	660.5	663.9	668.5	648.3	651.5
Total		1,334.6	1,330.1	1,349.7	1,341.6	1,358.2	1,318.9	1,316.3

Lone parent
At least 1 child aged under 5 and no child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	[5.6]	[7.2]
	Female	21.1	18.0	19.0	18.9	16.8	24.7	27.7
	Total	21.7	19.4	20.3	20.3	17.7	30.3	34.9
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.5	[4.9]	[4.5]	[4.3]	[4.2]	*	*
	Total	7.3	[5.3]	[5.0]	[4.5]	[4.2]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	20.6	20.5	20.4	18.4	16.0	19.9	20.1
	Total	21.0	21.0	20.9	18.6	16.3	20.4	20.3
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	[6.2]	[7.5]
	Female	48.2	43.4	43.9	41.7	37.1	47.6	49.4
	Total	49.9	45.6	46.2	43.5	38.2	53.8	56.9
At least 1 child aged under 5 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[2.7]	[3.0]	[2.7]	*	[3.3]	*	*
	Total	[2.7]	[3.1]	[2.9]	*	[3.3]	*	*
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	4.7	4.8	5.4	[4.8]	5.4	[5.4]	[4.6]
	Total	4.9	5.1	5.8	[4.9]	5.6	[5.9]	[4.7]
All children aged 5 to 14
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	[7.4]	[7.8]
	Female	24.3	20.4	19.9	23.7	25.9	27.8	34.3
	Total	26.3	22.1	21.6	25.5	28.4	35.2	42.1
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.3	5.9	[4.0]	*	*	*	*
	Total	9.1	6.8	4.9	[4.2]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	10.5	11.4	13.0	11.1	11.9	10.7	12.8
	Total	11.9	12.5	13.9	12.1	12.8	12.3	14.4
Total
	Male	[4.1]	[3.7]	[3.5]	[3.5]	[3.7]	9.3	10.0
	Female	43.1	37.7	36.9	38.2	41.1	41.7	49.5
	Total	47.3	41.4	40.4	41.7	44.8	51.0	59.4
No child aged under 5, at least 1 child aged 5 to 14 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	9.7	8.3	10.3	9.9	12.6	12.7	14.6
	Total	11.0	9.1	11.3	11.6	13.7	14.4	17.2
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.5]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.7]	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.5	6.8	7.0	8.6	7.8	[6.8]	[7.3]
	Total	7.7	7.3	7.8	9.1	8.0	[7.5]	7.9
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	20.7	16.9	19.4	19.7	22.9	20.7	24.2
	Total	22.4	18.6	21.3	21.8	24.3	23.2	27.5
All children aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	7.7	8.2	7.6	8.4	9.8	9.2	10.8
	Female	29.8	32.7	33.2	34.4	39.5	39.6	38.2
	Total	37.4	40.9	40.7	42.9	49.3	48.8	48.9
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[5.2]	[4.2]	[5.3]	[3.9]	*	*	*
	Total	6.8	5.6	6.3	[5.0]	[4.2]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	9.9	11.0	9.6	9.6	9.2	6.9	9.0
	Female	39.4	42.9	44.2	45.4	48.8	37.7	41.6
	Total	49.3	53.9	53.8	55.1	58.0	44.5	50.6
Total
	Male	19.1	20.5	18.2	19.2	19.9	16.7	20.4
	Female	74.4	79.9	82.7	83.8	91.6	80.4	81.5
	Total	93.5	100.3	100.9	103.0	111.5	97.1	101.9
Total lone parents
In employment
Male		11.7	12.2	11.7	13.4	14.5	24.4	28.4
Female		86.1	80.6	84.4	88.7	96.9	107.3	116.7
Total		97.8	92.8	96.1	102.1	111.4	131.7	145.1
Unemployed
Male		[3.2]	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
Female		24.4	17.4	16.4	13.1	13.2	10.6	8.3
Total		27.6	20.5	19.0	15.2	14.5	11.7	9.8
Not in the labour force
Male		11.9	13.2	12.0	11.3	10.6	9.7	11.3
Female		80.6	84.6	87.3	86.3	87.9	78.0	84.3
Total		92.5	97.8	99.3	97.6	98.5	87.7	95.6
Total
Male		26.8	28.5	26.2	26.8	26.3	35.1	41.3
Female		191.1	182.6	188.2	188.1	198.0	195.9	209.2
Total		217.9	211.1	214.4	214.9	224.3	231.0	250.5

All family units
In employment
Male		727.6	747.3	774.6	781.4	796.3	822.0	817.2
Female		635.1	641.5	661.9	682.8	704.5	730.6	730.3
Total		1,362.7	1,388.8	1,436.5	1,464.2	1,500.7	1,552.6	1,547.5
Unemployed
Male		90.9	75.1	63.3	51.0	36.4	29.0	23.8
Female		84.5	64.9	59.1	52.1	34.9	36.4	30.7
Total		175.4	140.0	122.3	103.2	71.3	65.4	54.5
Not in the labour force
Male		272.4	272.8	269.8	269.6	282.7	274.5	277.9
Female		509.2	509.2	508.0	510.7	524.7	496.3	513.8
Total		781.6	782.0	777.8	780.3	807.4	770.8	791.7
Total
Male		1,090.9	1,095.1	1,107.6	1,102.0	1,115.3	1,125.6	1,118.9
Female		1,228.8	1,215.7	1,229.0	1,245.7	1,264.1	1,263.3	1,274.8
Total		2,319.8	2,310.7	2,336.7	2,347.7	2,379.4	2,388.8	2,393.6
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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%
Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	74.0	75.6	77.6	79.0	80.5	82.3	82.9
		Female	64.8	65.0	66.5	69.0	69.3	69.6	69.2
		Total	69.2	70.1	71.9	73.7	74.7	75.7	75.8

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	81.2	85.6	87.7	89.6	89.1	90.2	90.6
		Female	61.2	64.5	66.9	67.4	68.7	69.7	68.1
		Total	71.5	75.3	77.6	78.6	79.0	80.1	79.6
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	83.5	84.3	85.2	86.2	89.0	89.8	90.1
		Female	59.0	61.4	60.4	64.1	68.2	70.2	69.8
		Total	71.5	73.0	73.0	75.2	78.8	80.3	80.1
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	79.8	82.6	85.8	85.7	86.8	87.0	89.0
		Female	62.6	63.4	66.2	64.6	64.8	70.3	75.1
		Total	71.2	73.1	76.2	75.3	75.9	78.8	82.0
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	72.7	74.2	76.2	77.8	79.5	81.6	83.7
		Female	52.4	52.6	55.6	54.8	58.2	63.4	58.9
		Total	62.1	63.0	65.6	65.9	68.5	72.0	70.7
		All children
		Male	80.1	82.9	84.9	86.1	87.0	88.1	89.0
		Female	59.4	61.5	63.2	63.8	66.0	68.7	68.0
		Total	69.8	72.3	74.2	74.9	76.6	78.5	78.5
Lone parent
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	[91.9]	[98.1]
		Female	42.2	39.9	42.8	44.4	44.5	51.3	54.8
		Total	42.1	40.7	43.5	45.9	45.4	55.8	60.0
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	[55.5]	[46.8]	[37.6]	[60.2]	*	82.1	77.0
		Female	51.8	51.7	51.3	56.4	59.2	64.7	65.7
		Total	52.1	51.3	50.1	56.8	60.2	67.7	67.5
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	55.9	66.6	[72.7]	[68.6]	[64.7]	[71.3]	81.4
		Female	61.7	60.6	59.9	62.0	64.9	68.8	68.9
		Total	60.9	61.3	61.3	62.9	64.9	69.1	70.9
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	59.5	52.6	62.0	61.7	68.9	77.1	69.4
		Female	52.3	58.6	58.8	57.3	58.9	58.8	58.2
		Total	53.7	57.3	59.3	58.1	60.8	61.6	60.2
		All children
		Male	55.9	55.4	58.6	65.0	69.4	80.8	80.4
		Female	50.9	51.5	52.2	54.3	56.7	60.0	61.3
		Total	51.4	51.9	52.9	55.4	58.0	63.0	64.3
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	80.9	85.3	87.4	89.5	89.0	90.2	90.9
		Female	58.2	60.8	63.2	63.9	65.3	66.4	65.6
		Total	68.9	72.3	74.7	75.9	76.5	77.5	77.4
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	82.9	83.4	84.0	85.6	88.8	89.4	89.4
		Female	57.1	59.4	58.4	62.5	66.1	69.0	68.8
		Total	68.5	70.3	70.1	72.9	76.3	78.5	78.1
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	78.6	82.0	85.3	85.0	86.0	86.3	88.5
		Female	62.4	62.7	64.7	64.0	64.8	69.9	73.5
		Total	69.6	71.4	73.9	73.4	74.2	77.3	80.1
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	71.7	72.4	75.2	76.7	78.6	81.3	82.5
		Female	52.4	54.0	56.4	55.4	58.4	62.1	58.7
		Total	60.7	62.0	64.5	64.4	67.0	70.1	68.6
		All children
		Male	79.4	82.1	84.2	85.5	86.6	87.8	88.6
		Female	57.6	59.5	61.0	61.9	64.0	66.8	66.4
		Total	67.5	69.8	71.6	72.5	74.2	76.3	76.4

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	78.0	80.4	82.5	83.7	85.0	86.3	87.1
		Female	59.3	60.9	62.3	63.6	65.3	67.5	67.1
		Total	67.9	69.9	71.7	72.8	74.3	76.2	76.2

Other persons
	Child members of family units
		Male	39.6	40.1	44.9	48.0	47.3	48.9	49.8
		Female	40.9	39.9	43.1	49.0	47.4	44.3	47.7
		Total	40.1	40.0	44.1	48.4	47.3	46.9	48.9
	Single person households
		Male	56.3	59.9	61.8	63.8	64.1	66.0	71.9
		Female	64.7	62.5	65.8	65.6	65.7	67.2	70.0
		Total	60.0	61.1	63.7	64.6	64.8	66.5	71.1
	All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	65.0	66.8	68.4	67.2	71.7	73.5	71.1
		Female	72.0	67.9	65.2	68.5	72.5	73.7	74.0
		Total	68.0	67.3	66.9	67.8	72.1	73.6	72.4
	Total of all other persons
		Male	48.2	49.7	52.6	54.9	55.8	56.8	58.6
		Female	52.2	50.7	52.2	56.3	56.3	55.4	57.4
		Total	50.0	50.1	52.4	55.5	56.0	56.2	58.1

Total of all persons
	Male		65.8	67.7	70.2	71.6	72.6	73.8	74.6
	Female		57.1	57.5	59.0	61.2	62.3	63.4	63.7
	Total		61.4	62.6	64.6	66.3	67.4	68.5	69.1
¹Employment rates include persons aged 15-64 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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%
Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	74.0	75.6	77.6	79.0	80.5	82.3	82.9
		Female	64.8	65.0	66.5	69.0	69.3	69.6	69.2
		Total	69.2	70.1	71.9	73.7	74.7	75.7	75.8

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	78.2	82.2	82.9	83.1	85.8	86.6	88.8
		Female	63.2	63.6	67.0	65.8	66.5	72.3	68.5
		Total	70.7	72.8	75.0	74.3	76.0	79.3	78.5
		2 children
		Male	82.5	84.3	86.9	88.0	88.8	89.7	91.0
		Female	62.7	65.2	65.5	66.7	69.2	71.1	71.7
		Total	72.7	74.9	76.4	77.5	79.1	80.5	81.4
		3 or more children
		Male	78.7	81.7	84.3	86.7	85.8	87.5	86.4
		Female	50.4	54.3	56.0	57.7	60.8	62.0	61.9
		Total	64.9	68.2	70.5	72.2	73.5	75.0	74.3
		All children
		Male	80.1	82.9	84.9	86.1	87.0	88.1	89.0
		Female	59.4	61.5	63.2	63.8	66.0	68.7	68.0
		Total	69.8	72.3	74.2	74.9	76.6	78.5	78.5
Lone parent
		1 child
		Male	51.9	54.2	56.9	63.4	64.9	76.7	77.2
		Female	54.6	55.5	56.6	61.0	62.1	62.6	64.9
		Total	54.3	55.3	56.7	61.3	62.4	64.4	66.9
		2 children
		Male	59.7	60.9	66.7	61.3	[74.7]	87.2	88.2
		Female	49.9	50.7	50.4	52.5	54.1	64.7	63.0
		Total	50.8	51.7	51.9	53.3	56.0	68.1	67.2
		3 or more children
		Male	*	*	[51.1]	*	*	[79.4]	*
		Female	40.2	39.0	42.3	37.8	45.1	42.2	48.1
		Total	42.4	40.1	43.2	41.4	47.2	48.7	51.2
		All children
		Male	55.9	55.4	58.6	65.0	69.4	80.8	80.4
		Female	50.9	51.5	52.2	54.3	56.7	60.0	61.3
		Total	51.4	51.9	52.9	55.4	58.0	63.0	64.3

Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	76.8	80.5	81.7	82.0	84.6	85.9	87.7
		Female	60.6	61.2	64.0	64.4	65.1	69.2	67.3
		Total	67.4	69.4	71.6	71.9	73.2	76.1	75.7
		2 children
		Male	82.1	83.9	86.5	87.4	88.5	89.6	90.9
		Female	60.5	63.0	63.0	64.2	66.7	69.9	70.2
		Total	70.5	72.9	74.0	74.9	76.9	79.1	79.9
		3 or more children
		Male	78.6	81.3	83.8	86.5	85.8	87.3	86.1
		Female	49.1	52.4	54.3	55.2	58.6	59.4	59.7
		Total	63.2	66.3	68.4	69.9	71.5	72.8	72.1
		All children
		Male	79.4	82.1	84.2	85.5	86.6	87.8	88.6
		Female	57.6	59.5	61.0	61.9	64.0	66.8	66.4
		Total	67.5	69.8	71.6	72.5	74.2	76.3	76.4

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	78.0	80.4	82.5	83.7	85.0	86.3	87.1
		Female	59.3	60.9	62.3	63.6	65.3	67.5	67.1
		Total	67.9	69.9	71.7	72.8	74.3	76.2	76.2

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	39.6	40.1	44.9	48.0	47.3	48.9	49.8
		Female	40.9	39.9	43.1	49.0	47.4	44.3	47.7
		Total	40.1	40.0	44.1	48.4	47.3	46.9	48.9
Single person households
		Male	56.3	59.9	61.8	63.8	64.1	66.0	71.9
		Female	64.7	62.5	65.8	65.6	65.7	67.2	70.0
		Total	60.0	61.1	63.7	64.6	64.8	66.5	71.1
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	65.0	66.8	68.4	67.2	71.7	73.5	71.1
		Female	72.0	67.9	65.2	68.5	72.5	73.7	74.0
		Total	68.0	67.3	66.9	67.8	72.1	73.6	72.4
Total of all other persons
		Male	48.2	49.7	52.6	54.9	55.8	56.8	58.6
		Female	52.2	50.7	52.2	56.3	56.3	55.4	57.4
		Total	50.0	50.1	52.4	55.5	56.0	56.2	58.1

Total of all persons
	Male		65.8	67.7	70.2	71.6	72.6	73.8	74.6
	Female		57.1	57.5	59.0	61.2	62.3	63.4	63.7
	Total		61.4	62.6	64.6	66.3	67.4	68.5	69.1
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.
¹Employment rates include persons aged 15-64 only

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Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	9.2	8.2	6.7	5.0	3.6	3.3	2.5
		Female	7.3	6.5	6.3	5.7	3.9	4.4	3.5
		Total	8.3	7.4	6.5	5.3	3.8	3.8	2.9

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	13.2	9.8	7.5	6.4	5.1	3.8	2.9
		Female	12.1	8.3	6.8	6.2	3.3	4.8	4.3
		Total	12.7	9.2	7.2	6.3	4.3	4.3	3.5
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	9.9	8.9	9.1	7.5	5.1	3.5	3.3
		Female	12.9	9.4	9.2	8.3	3.3	3.8	4.3
		Total	11.1	9.1	9.2	7.9	4.3	3.6	3.8
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	10.6	8.6	6.9	5.5	4.0	3.2	2.6
		Female	9.0	8.0	7.4	6.3	3.4	2.8	2.6
		Total	9.9	8.3	7.1	5.8	3.8	3.0	2.6
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	10.1	8.7	6.8	5.7	3.2	2.7	2.2
		Female	7.6	7.9	5.1	4.3	2.9	2.2	1.7
		Total	9.0	8.3	6.1	5.1	3.0	2.5	2.0
		All children
		Male	11.6	9.2	7.7	6.4	4.6	3.5	2.9
		Female	11.0	8.4	7.1	6.4	3.2	3.8	3.6
		Total	11.3	8.9	7.4	6.4	4.0	3.6	3.2
Lone parent
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	[1.9]
		Female	24.7	22.0	19.4	18.5	18.1	10.1	6.1
		Total	25.9	22.3	19.9	18.0	17.4	8.4	5.3
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	[3.9]	[8.0]
		Female	27.5	21.9	17.4	14.6	11.1	9.2	7.7
		Total	27.2	23.4	19.1	15.4	10.8	8.2	7.8
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	[25]	[18.6]	[8.8]	[10.3]	*	*	[6.1]
		Female	17.8	16.0	16.9	10.5	13.7	9.5	7.6
		Total	18.8	16.3	16.0	10.5	13.2	9.0	7.3
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	13.8	15.7	13.4	12.1	8.9	6.6	4.3
		Female	16.0	11.4	11.7	8.3	6.4	7.4	4.9
		Total	15.5	12.3	12.1	9.1	7.0	7.2	4.8
		All children
		Male	22.2	21.5	18.0	13.5	8.1	4.1	5.1
		Female	22.1	17.8	16.4	13.0	12.0	9.0	6.6
		Total	22.1	18.3	16.6	13.0	11.5	8.2	6.3
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	13.4	9.9	7.6	6.5	5.0	3.7	2.9
		Female	13.7	9.8	8.3	7.6	4.9	5.6	4.6
		Total	13.5	9.9	7.9	7.0	5.0	4.6	3.7
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	10.1	9.5	9.6	7.8	5.1	3.5	3.6
		Female	16.8	12.0	10.9	9.6	5.1	5.0	5.1
		Total	13.4	10.7	10.2	8.7	5.1	4.2	4.3
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	11.2	8.9	7.0	5.7	4.2	3.3	2.8
		Female	11.3	9.9	9.7	7.3	6.3	4.5	3.9
		Total	11.2	9.4	8.3	6.5	5.2	3.9	3.4
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	10.4	9.1	7.2	6.1	3.6	3.0	2.4
		Female	9.8	8.8	6.9	5.4	3.9	3.7	2.6
		Total	10.1	9.0	7.0	5.8	3.7	3.3	2.5
		All children
		Male	11.8	9.5	7.9	6.6	4.7	3.5	3.0
		Female	13.3	10.2	8.9	7.6	5.0	4.9	4.2
		Total	12.5	9.8	8.4	7.1	4.8	4.1	3.6

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	11.2	9.2	7.6	6.2	4.4	3.4	2.8
		Female	11.8	9.2	8.2	7.1	4.7	4.8	4.0
		Total	11.4	9.2	7.9	6.6	4.6	4.1	3.4

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	32.4	29.0	22.7	20.5	17.4	14.7	14.6
		Female	24.3	22.1	17.5	14.4	12.1	12.9	10.9
		Total	29.0	26.1	20.6	17.9	15.1	14.0	13.0
Single person households
		Male	19.7	15.6	14.0	13.2	10.6	8.7	6.2
		Female	10.7	13.1	9.0	7.2	8.1	5.2	4.7
		Total	15.7	14.4	11.7	10.5	9.5	7.2	5.5
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	15.2	14.3	10.5	10.2	8.0	7.4	5.7
		Female	8.0	8.0	6.8	7.1	5.3	3.1	3.9
		Total	12.0	11.6	8.8	8.9	6.8	5.3	4.9
Total of all other persons
		Male	25.3	22.1	18.0	16.5	13.4	11.6	10.5
		Female	16.8	16.0	12.8	11.0	9.4	8.3	7.7
		Total	21.6	19.5	15.7	14.1	11.7	10.2	9.3

Total of all persons
	Male		15.9	13.5	11.0	9.7	7.5	6.2	5.6
	Female		13.3	11.3	9.6	8.3	6.2	5.8	5.2
	Total		14.7	12.5	10.4	9.1	6.9	6.0	5.4
¹Unemployment rates include persons aged 15-74 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	9.2	8.2	6.7	5.0	3.6	3.3	2.5
		Female	7.3	6.5	6.3	5.7	3.9	4.4	3.5
		Total	8.3	7.4	6.5	5.3	3.8	3.8	2.9

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	11.2	8.7	8.0	6.7	4.0	2.6	2.6
		Female	11.6	7.9	6.8	6.0	3.6	3.2	3.3
		Total	11.4	8.4	7.5	6.4	3.8	2.9	2.9
		2 children
		Male	11.1	8.5	6.3	6.2	4.4	2.9	2.3
		Female	9.8	8.4	7.0	6.3	3.3	4.0	3.6
		Total	10.6	8.5	6.6	6.2	3.9	3.4	2.9
		3 or more children
		Male	12.6	10.7	9.2	6.4	5.4	5.0	3.9
		Female	12.2	9.0	7.9	7.0	2.7	4.2	3.8
		Total	12.5	10.0	8.7	6.6	4.3	4.7	3.9
		All children
		Male	11.6	9.2	7.7	6.4	4.6	3.5	2.9
		Female	11.0	8.4	7.1	6.4	3.2	3.8	3.6
		Total	11.3	8.9	7.4	6.4	4.0	3.6	3.2
Lone parent household
		1 child
		Male	26.1	24.8	24.4	14.4	11.6	7.8	6.8
		Female	21.1	17.6	16.2	10.2	11.0	8.2	5.3
		Total	21.7	18.6	17.3	10.8	11.1	8.2	5.6
		2 children
		Male	[16.4]	[8.5]	[7.7]	[18.2]	[2.7]	*	2.7
		Female	21.8	18.2	17.2	18.7	13.8	8.7	6.3
		Total	21.2	17.1	16.2	18.6	12.6	7.2	5.6
		3 or more children
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	[2.7]	*
		Female	26.8	18.3	15.0	9.2	12.1	13.6	12.3
		Total	25.5	19.4	14.4	7.8	11.0	10.8	10.9
		All children
		Male	22.2	21.5	18.0	13.5	8.1	4.1	5.1
		Female	22.1	17.8	16.4	13.0	12.0	9.0	6.6
		Total	22.1	18.3	16.6	13.0	11.5	8.2	6.3
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	11.9	9.5	8.7	7.0	4.4	2.9	3.0
		Female	14.4	10.8	9.4	7.2	6.0	4.7	4.0
		Total	13.2	10.2	9.1	7.1	5.2	3.9	3.5
		2 children
		Male	11.2	8.5	6.3	6.4	4.4	2.8	2.3
		Female	11.7	9.7	8.5	8.3	4.8	4.8	4.1
		Total	11.4	9.1	7.3	7.3	4.6	3.8	3.2
		3 or more children
		Male	12.6	10.9	9.2	6.3	5.3	4.9	3.9
		Female	14.1	9.9	8.6	7.2	3.8	5.2	5.0
		Total	13.2	10.5	9.0	6.7	4.7	5.0	4.4
		All children
		Male	11.8	9.5	7.9	6.6	4.7	3.5	3.0
		Female	13.3	10.2	8.9	7.6	5.0	4.9	4.2
		Total	12.5	9.8	8.4	7.1	4.8	4.1	3.6

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	11.2	9.2	7.6	6.2	4.4	3.4	2.8
		Female	11.8	9.2	8.2	7.1	4.7	4.8	4.0
		Total	11.4	9.2	7.9	6.6	4.6	4.1	3.4

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	32.4	29.0	22.7	20.5	17.4	14.7	14.6
		Female	24.3	22.1	17.5	14.4	12.1	12.9	10.9
		Total	29.0	26.1	20.6	17.9	15.1	14.0	13.0
Single person households
		Male	19.7	15.6	14.0	13.2	10.6	8.7	6.2
		Female	10.7	13.1	9.0	7.2	8.1	5.2	4.7
		Total	15.7	14.4	11.7	10.5	9.5	7.2	5.5
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	15.2	14.3	10.5	10.2	8.0	7.4	5.7
		Female	8.0	8.0	6.8	7.1	5.3	3.1	3.9
		Total	12.0	11.6	8.8	8.9	6.8	5.3	4.9
Total of all other persons
		Male	25.3	22.1	18.0	16.5	13.4	11.6	10.5
		Female	16.8	16.0	12.8	11.0	9.4	8.3	7.7
		Total	21.6	19.5	15.7	14.1	11.7	10.2	9.3

Total of all persons
	Male		15.9	13.5	11.0	9.7	7.5	6.2	5.6
	Female		13.3	11.3	9.6	8.3	6.2	5.8	5.2
	Total		14.7	12.5	10.4	9.1	6.9	6.0	5.4
¹ Unemployment rates include persons aged 15-74 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	55.2	55.4	55.3	55.9	54.1	56.3	54.5
		Female	48.2	48.5	48.5	50.2	48.2	48.0	46.5
		Total	51.7	52.0	51.9	53.1	51.2	52.2	50.5

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	93.5	94.8	94.8	95.7	93.8	93.7	93.4
		Female	69.6	70.3	71.7	71.8	71.0	73.3	71.2
		Total	81.9	82.8	83.6	83.9	82.6	83.7	82.5
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	92.6	92.3	93.4	93.1	93.8	92.9	93.1
		Female	67.7	67.7	66.5	70.0	70.5	72.9	72.9
		Total	80.4	80.2	80.2	81.6	82.4	83.2	83.2
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	88.0	89.8	91.1	90.0	90.0	89.3	90.8
		Female	68.7	68.7	71.5	68.8	67.0	72.3	77.1
		Total	78.4	79.4	81.5	79.6	78.7	81.0	84.0
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	67.0	65.7	66.9	67.0	65.9	70.6	71.8
		Female	49.4	48.6	50.4	48.0	49.2	55.5	51.3
		Total	58.2	57.2	58.7	57.6	57.6	63.0	61.4
		All children
		Male	87.1	87.4	88.0	87.8	87.1	87.9	88.2
		Female	64.8	64.9	66.0	65.6	65.4	69.1	68.1
		Total	76.1	76.3	77.2	76.8	76.4	78.6	78.2
Lone parent household
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	[91.9]	[97.9]
		Female	56.0	51.1	53.0	54.5	54.4	57.1	58.4
		Total	56.9	52.4	54.1	55.9	55.1	60.9	63.2
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	[70.9]	[73.9]	[60.8]	[78.0]	*	85.4	83.8
		Female	71.5	66.2	62.1	66.1	66.6	71.3	71.2
		Total	71.4	66.9	61.9	67.1	67.5	73.7	73.1
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	73.3	76.7	[78.6]	[73.8]	[70.9]	[76.3]	85.4
		Female	75.1	71.9	72.1	69.3	75.2	76.0	74.5
		Total	74.9	72.5	72.8	69.9	74.8	76.0	76.3
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	43.5	40.6	42.3	44.6	51.6	53.2	48.9
		Female	39.3	39.1	39.5	40.3	39.2	46.8	43.9
		Total	40.2	39.4	40.0	41.1	41.7	47.9	44.9
		All children
		Male	55.6	53.8	54.2	57.8	59.7	72.4	72.6
		Female	57.8	53.7	53.6	54.1	55.6	60.2	59.7
		Total	57.6	53.7	53.7	54.6	56.1	62.1	61.8
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	93.5	94.6	94.6	95.7	93.8	93.7	93.5
		Female	67.5	67.4	68.8	69.2	68.7	70.3	68.8
		Total	79.7	80.3	81.0	81.6	80.5	81.2	80.3
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	92.1	91.9	92.7	92.7	93.5	92.5	92.6
		Female	68.6	67.4	65.6	69.1	69.6	72.6	72.5
		Total	79.0	78.5	77.9	79.8	80.4	81.9	81.6
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	87.3	89.3	90.6	89.3	89.3	88.7	90.5
		Female	70.2	69.4	71.6	68.9	69.1	73.3	76.4
		Total	77.9	78.4	80.2	78.2	78.1	80.2	82.7
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	64.6	62.8	64.5	64.9	64.4	69.0	69.4
		Female	46.4	45.6	46.9	45.6	45.9	52.8	49.0
		Total	54.3	53.1	54.6	53.9	53.9	59.8	57.8
		All children
		Male	85.9	86.0	86.8	86.6	86.1	87.1	87.2
		Female	63.2	62.5	63.2	63.1	63.2	67.0	66.1
		Total	73.5	73.2	74.0	73.7	73.6	76.2	75.6

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.0	75.1	75.6	75.5	74.7	75.6	75.2
		Female	58.6	58.1	58.7	59.0	58.5	60.7	59.7
		Total	66.3	66.2	66.7	66.8	66.1	67.7	66.9

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	58.5	56.4	58.1	60.4	57.2	57.2	58.3
		Female	54.0	51.2	52.2	57.2	53.9	50.8	53.5
		Total	56.5	54.1	55.5	59.0	55.8	54.5	56.2
Single person households
		Male	52.9	52.1	52.4	52.8	51.3	51.8	55.2
		Female	36.8	36.4	36.4	35.6	35.9	36.4	38.6
		Total	44.3	43.3	43.5	43.5	43.1	43.8	46.7
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	71.3	72.6	70.5	69.5	73.0	73.7	69.2
		Female	63.8	61.5	58.3	61.4	63.4	66.3	63.8
		Total	67.8	67.4	64.6	65.7	68.6	69.9	66.7
Total of all other persons
		Male	59.7	58.9	59.1	60.1	59.1	58.2	59.1
		Female	50.2	48.6	48.2	50.5	49.9	48.4	49.5
		Total	55.2	54.0	53.8	55.6	54.7	53.5	54.6

Total of all persons
	Male		69.1	68.8	69.3	69.4	68.4	68.6	68.4
	Female		55.8	54.8	55.0	56.1	55.5	56.4	56.0
	Total		62.3	61.7	62.0	62.6	61.9	62.3	62.1
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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%
Family unit and non-family unit type/ Sex			Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	55.2	55.4	55.3	55.9	54.1	56.3	54.5
		Female	48.2	48.5	48.5	50.2	48.2	48.0	46.5
		Total	51.7	52.0	51.9	53.1	51.2	52.2	50.5

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	80.2	81.0	81.1	79.5	79.4	80.9	82.6
		Female	66.4	63.7	66.2	63.4	61.8	68.7	64.8
		Total	73.4	72.5	73.8	71.5	70.7	74.8	73.7
		2 children
		Male	91.3	90.6	90.9	91.9	91.0	90.9	91.9
		Female	68.8	70.2	69.8	70.3	70.5	73.0	73.6
		Total	80.2	80.6	80.6	81.3	81.0	82.1	82.9
		3 or more children
		Male	89.6	90.6	92.3	92.3	90.4	91.5	89.2
		Female	57.2	59.3	60.6	62.0	62.4	64.5	64.0
		Total	73.8	75.2	76.8	77.2	76.7	78.3	76.8
		All children
		Male	87.1	87.4	88.0	87.8	87.1	87.9	88.2
		Female	64.8	64.9	66.0	65.6	65.4	69.1	68.1
		Total	76.1	76.3	77.2	76.8	76.4	78.6	78.2
Lone parent household
		1 child
		Male	50.9	52.2	51.7	53.3	55.4	64.2	68.2
		Female	57.4	53.7	53.0	54.0	54.6	58.9	59.0
		Total	56.5	53.4	52.9	53.9	54.7	59.6	60.6
		2 children
		Male	60.8	54.7	60.8	61.7	66.5	80.8	80.5
		Female	60.5	57.8	57.1	60.9	60.6	68.4	64.3
		Total	60.5	57.5	57.5	61.0	61.2	70.4	67.2
		3 or more children
		Male	[77.5]	[63.1]	[53.9]	*	*	[81.6]	[74.8]
		Female	54.4	46.1	49.2	41.0	50.3	48.4	54.6
		Total	56.3	47.8	49.7	44.1	52.0	54.1	57.0
		All children
		Male	55.6	53.8	54.2	57.8	59.7	72.4	72.6
		Female	57.8	53.7	53.6	54.1	55.6	60.2	59.7
		Total	57.6	53.7	53.7	54.6	56.1	62.1	61.8
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	78.0	78.7	79.2	77.7	77.6	79.6	81.1
		Female	63.4	60.4	61.9	60.4	59.4	65.3	62.7
		Total	69.6	68.2	69.3	67.8	67.0	71.4	70.4
		2 children
		Male	90.6	89.8	90.3	91.1	90.4	90.4	91.4
		Female	67.3	68.2	67.6	68.5	68.8	72.1	71.9
		Total	78.2	78.4	78.2	79.1	79.0	80.7	81.1
		3 or more children
		Male	89.4	90.2	91.6	92.1	90.3	91.2	88.9
		Female	56.8	57.7	59.1	59.3	60.7	62.3	62.5
		Total	72.4	73.3	74.8	74.7	74.8	76.3	74.9
		All children
		Male	85.9	86.0	86.8	86.6	86.1	87.1	87.2
		Female	63.2	62.5	63.2	63.1	63.2	67.0	66.1
		Total	73.5	73.2	74.0	73.7	73.6	76.2	75.6

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.0	75.1	75.6	75.5	74.7	75.6	75.2
		Female	58.6	58.1	58.7	59.0	58.5	60.7	59.7
		Total	66.3	66.2	66.7	66.8	66.1	67.7	66.9

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	58.5	56.4	58.1	60.4	57.2	57.2	58.3
		Female	54.0	51.2	52.2	57.2	53.9	50.8	53.5
		Total	56.5	54.1	55.5	59.0	55.8	54.5	56.2
Single person households
		Male	52.9	52.1	52.4	52.8	51.3	51.8	55.2
		Female	36.8	36.4	36.4	35.6	35.9	36.4	38.6
		Total	44.3	43.3	43.5	43.5	43.1	43.8	46.7
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	71.3	72.6	70.5	69.5	73.0	73.7	69.2
		Female	63.8	61.5	58.3	61.4	63.4	66.3	63.8
		Total	67.8	67.4	64.6	65.7	68.6	69.9	66.7
Total of all other persons
		Male	59.7	58.9	59.1	60.1	59.1	58.2	59.1
		Female	50.2	48.6	48.2	50.5	49.9	48.4	49.5
		Total	55.2	54.0	53.8	55.6	54.7	53.5	54.6

Total of all persons
	Male		69.1	68.8	69.3	69.4	68.4	68.6	68.4
	Female		55.8	54.8	55.0	56.1	55.5	56.4	56.0
	Total		62.3	61.7	62.0	62.6	61.9	62.3	62.1
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Family unit type/ Duration of unemployment/ Sex		Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Q2 18	Q2 19
Couple without children
Less than 1 year
	Male	6.8	5.6	4.6	[4.0]	*	*	*
	Female	6.4	5.9	[5.0]	[5.4]	*	[6.5]	*
	Total	13.2	11.5	9.6	9.3	7.5	11.4	[7.0]
1 year or over
	Male	12.6	11.7	9.6	6.7	[4.5]	*	*
	Female	6.9	5.8	6.6	[5.2]	*	*	*
	Total	19.4	17.5	16.1	11.9	7.3	[4.8]	[4.8]
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	19.4	17.6	14.3	10.9	7.7	[7.6]	[5.6]
	Female	13.4	11.9	11.5	11.2	[7.5]	8.9	[6.6]
	Total	32.7	29.5	25.8	22.1	15.2	16.5	12.2
Couple with children
Less than 1 year
	Male	20.0	18.1	14.1	12.6	9.3	8.3	8.5
	Female	22.2	16.5	15.8	17.0	8.4	11.8	11.9
	Total	42.2	34.6	30.0	29.6	17.7	20.1	20.5
1 year or over
	Male	47.7	35.9	31.2	24.3	16.8	10.0	7.6
	Female	24.3	19.0	15.3	10.6	[5.5]	[4.9]	*
	Total	72.0	54.8	46.5	35.0	22.3	14.9	11.1
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	68.3	54.4	46.5	38.0	27.4	20.4	16.7
	Female	46.8	35.6	31.1	27.8	14.2	16.9	15.8
	Total	115.0	90.0	77.6	65.8	41.6	37.2	32.5
Lone parent
Less than 1 year
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	11.4	7.4	7.7	[5.6]	[6.3]	[6.0]	[5.4]
	Total	11.9	8.3	8.3	[6.3]	6.7	[6.6]	[5.6]
1 year or over
	Male	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	13.0	9.8	8.6	7.3	6.5	[4.6]	*
	Total	15.8	11.9	10.5	8.6	7.4	[5.0]	*
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	[3.2]	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	24.4	17.4	16.4	13.1	13.2	10.6	8.3
	Total	27.6	20.5	19.0	15.2	14.5	11.7	9.8
All family units
Less than 1 year
	Male	27.3	24.6	19.4	17.2	12.8	13.8	11.1
	Female	40.0	29.8	28.5	28.0	19.2	24.2	22.0
	Total	67.3	54.4	47.9	45.2	31.9	38.1	33.1
1 year or over
	Male	63.0	49.7	42.6	32.3	22.2	13.0	12.1
	Female	44.2	34.6	30.5	23.2	14.9	11.7	7.9
	Total	107.2	84.3	73.1	55.5	37.0	24.7	20.0
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	90.9	75.1	63.3	51.0	36.4	29.0	23.8
	Female	84.5	64.9	59.1	52.1	34.9	36.4	30.7
	Total	175.4	140.0	122.3	103.2	71.3	65.4	54.5
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Introduction

This release presents an analysis of households and members of family units from the Labour Force Survey.

Estimated number of households

The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. As a result, the number of households should be treated as indicative only.

Family unit coding

For the purpose of the data in this release it can be noted that an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition, users should note that the adjustment factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

A family unit itself consists of either:

1. a married couple, or

2. a married couple and one or more of their never-married children, or

3. one parent and one or more of his or her never-married children, or

4. a couple living together (with never-married children, if any) who are not married to each other, where it is clear that the couple form a “de facto” family unit.

Households may contain more than one family unit or may contain a family together with other persons not in a family unit as defined above.

Jobless Households

The Labour Force Survey is the official source of data for the jobless household indicator.

The indicator "People aged 18 - 59 years living in jobless households" is calculated as the share of persons aged 18 - 59 who are living in households where no one is in employment. Students aged 18 - 24 who live in households composed solely of students (persons who have indicated that their Principal Economic Status is Student) of the same age class are not included. The indicator "People aged 0 - 17 years living in jobless households" is calculated as the share of persons aged 0 - 17 who are living in households where no one is in employment.

Purpose of the Labour Force Survey

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) at the beginning of Q3 2017. The purpose of the survey is the production of quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics. The survey meets the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98, adopted in March 1998, which required the introduction of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.

Reference Period

Information is collected continuously throughout the year from households surveyed each week in each quarter. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis since its establishment in Q4 1997. The LFS is undertaken on a calendar quarter basis which was first adopted in the QNHS in the first quarter of 2009.

The reference quarters for survey results are:

Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December

Data Collection

The LFS is conducted using mixed mode data collection with the introduction of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). As with the QNHS, information is collected from each sample household over 5 successive quarters or Waves. However, in the LFS, the first interview is conducted by a team of face-to-face interviewers using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). The four follow-up interviews are conducted using CATI from a dedicated call centre, where householders have agreed to conduct a telephone interview. Face-to-face interviews where householders have not agreed to conduct a telephone interview.

Sample Design

A new sample based on the 2011 Census of Population was selected for the LFS and this was introduced incrementally from Q1 2016. The sample is stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. A two-stage sample design is used. In the first stage, 1,300 blocks are selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling. In the second stage, households are selected using Simple Random Sampling (SRS). This ensures each household in the sample frame has an equal probability of selection.

To account for the additional attrition as a result of the introduction of mixed mode data collection, the LFS sample was incrementally from Q3 2017. An additional 1,300 households were included in Wave 1 for each quarter and this has resulted in a total sample of 31,200 households in Q2 2018. As the sample is being increased by 1,300 households per Wave, the final design sample will increase to 32,500 households by Q3 2018. The actual achieved sample varies over time depending on the level of response.

The number of valid responding households for the LFS in Q2 2018 was 14,071.

Households are asked to take part in the survey for five consecutive quarters and are then replaced by other households in the same block. Thus, one fifth of the households in the survey are replaced each quarter and the QNHS/LFS sample involves an overlap of 80% between consecutive quarters and 20% between the same quarter in consecutive years. It is important to note that there is no overlap in sample between the QNHS and the LFS.

The survey results are weighted to agree with population estimates broken down by age, sex and region (the regions have changed from Q1 2018 – see below) and are also calibrated to nationality control totals. The LFS results also contain a non-response adjustment to make the results from the achieved sample representative of the target sample and the population. The population estimates for April of each year are published in a separate release.

New samples, both based on the 2011 Census of Population, were introduced incrementally for the QNHS in Q4 2012 and in Q3 2016. The former was stratified using administrative county and population density while the latter was stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. The quarterly sample in each case was 26,000 households. The actual achieved sample varied over time depending on the level of response.

Estimated number of households

The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. As a result, the number of households should be treated as indicative only.

Family unit coding

A family unit itself consists of either:

1. a married couple, or

2. a married couple and one or more of their never-married children, or

3. one parent and one or more of his or her never-married children, or

4. a couple living together (with never-married children, if any) who are not married to each other, where it is clear that the couple form a “de facto” family unit.

Households may contain more than one family unit or may contain a family together with other persons not in a family unit as defined above.

Jobless Households

The Labour Force Survey is the official source of data for the jobless household indicator.

Comparison to Census of Population results

The data in this release is not directly comparable to the results from the Census of Population. Both sources are collected in different ways and this can lead to differences in estimates between the two sources. In addition, as noted above, the LFS is a voluntary sample survey, while the Census of Population is a mandatory survey of the entire population. In addition, the Census of Population is a self-completed paper questionnaire whereas in the LFS, questions are asked using a combination of CAPI and CATI and that may lead to differences in understanding and interpreting the questions.

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

Up to and including Q1 2006 the annual population estimates were calculated using the de facto definition of population (i.e. all persons present in the State). From Q2 2006 onwards a new concept of usual residence has been used, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the state plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State. The LFS uses the concept of usual residence.

Households with all persons aged 75 and over and classified as inactive

Households which contain only respondents who are aged 75 or over who are each classified as Inactive (Not in the Labour Force) are not re-interviewed. This is to reduce unnecessary burden and instead answers are copied forward from the last available interview.

Statistical significance

All estimates based on sample surveys are subject to error, some of which is measurable. Where an estimate is statistically significantly different from another estimate it means that we can be 95% confident that differences between those two estimates are not due to sampling error.

ILO Labour Force Classification

The primary classification used for the LFS results is the ILO (International Labour Office) labour force classification. Labour Force Survey data on this basis have been published since 1988. The ILO classification distinguishes the following main subgroups of the population aged 15 or over:

In Employment: Persons who worked in the week before the survey for one hour or more for payment or profit, including work on the family farm or business and all persons who had a job but were not at work because of illness, holidays etc. in the week.

Unemployed: Persons who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work. It should be noted that as per Eurostat’s operational implementation, the upper age limit for classifying a person as unemployed is 74 years.

Inactive Population (not in labour force): All other persons.

The labour force comprises persons employed plus unemployed.

Participation, Employment and Unemployment Rates

The rates given in this release are based on the ILO classification. The Participation Rate is the number of persons in the labour force expressed as a percentage of the total population aged 15 or over. The Employment Rate is the number of employed aged 15 to 64 expressed as a percentage of the total population aged 15 to 64.

To ensure coherence with Unemployment Rates produced by Eurostat, the CSO changed the method of calculation of the Unemployment Rate as of Q2 2015. Prior to this, the Unemployment Rate was calculated as the number of unemployed expressed as a percentage of the total labour force aged 15 and over. The change introduced limits the labour force to persons aged 15-74 and this excludes a small number of persons aged 75 and over in employment from the total labour force used in the calculation. The overall impact of this change was minimal.

Duration of Unemployment

The duration of unemployment is the length of time since a person last had a job or began looking for work, whichever is more recent. The long-term unemployment rate is the number of persons unemployed for one year or more expressed as a percentage of the total labour force aged 15 to 74 years.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 Regions

The regional classifications in this release is based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. Until Q4 2017, the NUTS3 regions corresponded to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994 while the NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, were groupings of those historic NUTS3 regions.

However, the NUTS3 boundaries were amended on 21^st of November 2016 under Regulation (EC) No. 2066/2016 and have come into force from Q1 2018. These new groupings are reflected in the LFS results from Q1 2018 onwards. The changes resulting from the amendment are that County Louth has moved from the Border to the Mid-East and what was formerly South Tipperary has moved from the South-East to the Mid-West, resulting in the new NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions:

Northern & Western NUTS2 Region		Southern NUTS2 Region		Eastern & Midland NUTS2 Region
Border	Cavan	Mid-West	Clare	Dublin	Dublin City
	Donegal		Limerick City & County		Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
	Leitrim		Tipperary		Fingal
	Monaghan				South Dublin
	Sligo
		South-East	Carlow	Mid-East	Kildare
West	Galway City		Kilkenny		Meath
	Galway County		Waterford City & County		Wicklow
	Mayo		Wexford		Louth
	Roscommon
				Midland	Laois
		South-West	Cork City		Longford
			Cork County		Offaly
			Kerry		Westmeath

Non-response adjustment

Non-response occurs when households that are sampled, and that are eligible for the survey, do not provide the requested information. This can lead to biased survey estimates if specific groups within the population are over- or under-represented and if these groups behave differently with respect to the survey variables (i.e. labour market outcomes). To correct for this, the CSO has introduced a non-response adjustment into the weighting procedure for the LFS.

The adjustment involves estimating response rates or propensities to respond as functions of characteristics available for responding and non-responding households, as well as characteristics of the areas where the households are located. Basically, the design weights have to be inflated by the inverse of the response propensities in order to compensate for the loss of units in the sample.

Linking the LFS sample with the Census of Population at household level provides a set of auxiliary variable which are available for both responding and non-responding LFS households. These include a mix of personal characteristics as well as characteristics of the dwelling and location (e.g. gender, age, marital status, education, personal employment status, dwelling type, area etc.). This allows the CSO to compare responding and non-responding households with respect to the characteristics available from the Census. This auxiliary information allows the use of “response propensities” to model non-response and adjust the grossing factors to compensate for non-response.

The response propensities are calculated using a logistic regression model where the dependent variable (Y) is an indicator variables corresponding to response (if the household responded then Y=1 and if the household did not respond then Y=0) and the independent variables are the set of auxiliary variables available from the Census. The estimated response propensities are then used to form adjustment cells or strata which are made up of respondents and non-respondents with similar estimated response propensities. Respondents within each cell/stratum are then weighted by the inverse of the observed response rate in that cell. This non-response adjusted weight is then used to inflate the original survey design weight to account for non-response. This approach is referred to as response propensity classification.

Back-casting methodology

The introduction of the LFS in Q3 2017 constituted a break in series for the labour market estimates published by the CSO. In an effort to mitigate the effect of the introduction of the LFS on the coherence of the historic data series, a back-casting exercise was carried out to link the QNHS and the LFS. The result of this is that the published QNHS series from Q1 1998 to Q2 2017 has been revised.

As part of the roll-out of the LFS, a parallel run of the two surveys was carried out. This allowed the estimation of the effect of the introduction of the new survey on the various labour market estimates. Quarter 1 of 2017 was used as the reference period to calculate scaling factors which were used to link the results from the two surveys. Labour market estimates were calculated from both surveys for a range of cohorts (age, sex, ILO status etc.) and the ratio of the two estimates provided a scaling factor which was applied to the historic QNHS series to create a back-cast series.

In Q3 2017, separate scaling factors were calculated for ILO status by age and sex together with the fifteen economic sector categories (table 2 of this release) by sex:

ILO status (Employed, Unemployed, Inactive) by sex (Male and Female) and by age (15-24 years and 25+ years)

NACE Rev. 2 groups (table 2 of this release) by sex (Male and Female)

In Q1 2018, additional scaling factors were calculated for the eight NUTS3 regions by Labour Force ILO status, occupation categories (table 4 of this release) and highest level of education completed (supplementary table 8 of this release) by sex:

NUTS3 Regions (pre-Q1 2018 groupings) by Labour Force ILO status (Employed and Unemployed)

Occupation groups (table 4 of this release)

Highest level of education completed (supplementary table 8 of this release) by sex (Male and Female)

Therefore, adjustments have been made to this historic data to enable comparability with the new LFS for these indicators. However, as a result of changes to the questionnaire, the interview mode, the introduction of a new sample, data processing changes and other methodological enhancements there are changes in the levels of some series from Q3 2017 onwards. As a consequence the series before and after the introduction of the new survey may not be directly comparable and users should therefore note this when examining annual and quarterly changes.

Please refer to the following information notes for further details:

Information Notice - Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2017

Information Notice - Labour Force Survey Quarter 1 2018

Information Note - Labour Force Survey Quarter 2 2018

Reliability of Estimates Presented

Estimates for number of persons where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables.

Where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution. These cells are presented with parentheses [ ].

In the case of rates, these limits apply to the denominator used in generating the rate. In the case of annual changes, both the current year and the preceding year are taken into account when deciding whether the estimate should be suppressed or flagged as having a wider margin of error.

Calculation of Rates and Estimates of Change

Rates and estimates of change presented in this release are calculated from whole unrounded numbers. Due to rounding, these may differ from the rates and estimates of change calculated from the rounded volumes presented in the tables.

Interpretation of volume and rate changes

The overall change in the number of people employed, unemployed, in the labour force and not in the labour force is a function both of changes in the population as well as changes in the proportion of people with that status. Therefore, in interpreting changes in the volume of persons who are employed, unemployed etc, both changes in population and changes in the relevant rates should be considered.

In recent years there has been a natural decline in the number of people in younger age groups arising from the falling number of births through the 1980’s until 1994 when a low of 48,255 births was recorded (compared with 74,278 in 2009). For example, there were 326,030 people born in Ireland between 1982 and 1986 and, all other things being equal, these people would have been in the 20-24 age group in 2006. However, between 1986 and 1990 there were nearly 50,000 fewer births which would create a natural decrease in the 20-24 age group of close to 50,000 between 2006 and 2010.

In addition to natural changes in population, net migration has been a significant feature of population change in Ireland in recent years and net migration has also been most heavily concentrated in younger age groups. Evidence shows that migration is also most heavily concentrated in the 20-24 and 25-34 age groups. As a result of both natural decrease and net outward migration, the population of persons in the younger age groups has fallen and this should be borne in mind when considering the changes in the number of people in these age groups who are employed, unemployed and in the labour force.

Main LFS release and Data Series

The quarterly LFS release can be accessed through the CSO website and along with other series can be viewed here.

Labour market data can also be accessed from Statbank, the CSO’s main data dissemination service which can be accessed through the CSO website and are available here.

Implications of Census 2016 Final Results

The LFS results are weighted using population estimates which are updated every quarter. Every 5 years the Census of Population results are used to revise these population estimates, and QNHS/LFS results are revised as a consequence.

The population concept of usual residence is used for the LFS, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the State plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State.

The final Census count was published on April 6 2017. The total for this usually resident population concept which was enumerated on Census Night, April 24 2016, was 4,739,597 persons, while the existing estimate for the usually resident population for April 2016 is 4,673,700 as detailed in the 2016 Population and Migration Estimates release. There is a difference, therefore, of just over 65,900 or 1.4% between the two figures.

The CSO has revised the population estimates for 2011 to 2016 based on this final Census count. Estimates of persons employed and unemployed have been revised in line with the higher population totals.

Changes to CSO Labour Market Statistics

Effective from Q3 2017, the QNHS has been replaced by a new Labour Force Survey (LFS). This is part of a major Household Survey Development (HSD) project that the CSO has been engaged in over the past number of years with the aim of expanding the range of social statistics to meet new needs for information on households and persons. This new survey includes the introduction of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), a redesigned questionnaire and enhancements to the survey methodology.

The introduction of such large scale changes has inevitably led to discontinuity in some series and this is in line with international experience of introducing such large scale changes. Adjustments have been made to historic QNHS data to enable comparability with the new LFS for headline indicators. However as a result of changes to the questionnaire, the interview mode, the introduction of a new sample, data processing changes and other methodological enhancements there are changes in the levels of some series from Q3 2017 onwards. As a consequence the series before and after the introduction of the new survey may not be directly comparable and users should therefore note this when examining annual and quarterly changes.

The first results from this new LFS were for Q3 2017. They incorporated the revision of population estimates arising from the 2016 Census of Population along with a back-cast series of the existing data for the QNHS to create a coherent time series – additional series were added to the back-casting to further enable comparability between the new and old series.

Participating Households

The Central Statistics Office as always wishes to thank the participating households for their co-operation in agreeing to take part in the survey and for facilitating the collection of the relevant data.

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