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Self-employed: Suffolk

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 December 2007:"The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what percentage of people in Suffolk were self-employed in each year since 1997. I am replying in her absence. (173453)""The Office for National Statistics compiles employment statistics for local areas from the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.""The table attached shows numbers of self-employed people, and these numbers as the percentage of all employed persons, in Suffolk, for the 12 month periods ending in February from 1998 to 2004 from the annual local area LFS and for the 12 months ending in March from 2005 to 2007 from the APS.""Estimates for a subset of the population in a small geographical area are based on very small sample sizes, and are therefore subject to large margins of uncertainty. Changes over time should be treated with particular caution."

Self-employed people resident in Suffolk
12 months ending	Self-employed (Thousand)	Self-employed as a percentage of all employed (percentage)
February 1998	38	12
February 1999	49	15
February 2000	43	13
February 2001	37	12
February 2002	43	13
February 2003	43	13
February 2004	40	13
March 2005	38	12
March 2006	42	13
March 2007	48	15
Notes: 1. Estimates are subject to sampling variability. 2. Changes in the estimates over time should be treated with caution. Source: Annual local area Labour Force Survey; Annual Population survey.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

469 c372-3W; 173453

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Suffolk Self-employed

Link

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