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The Changing Distribution
of Employment in
Britain 1971-1981
Quartile Rates by
Enumeration District of:
Working
Unemployed
All
Three
Inactive
Figure 5.4 The term inactive is used by the census authorities to include those
who are retired, permanently sick, students and housewives. Increasing unem-
ployment causes more early retirement, less employment of the disabled who then
more often register sick, other measures used to keep the headline unemployment
figures down and, more now than then, more staying on in education.
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