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The percentage of 16 year-olds in England achieving no qualifications has decreased to 5.2 per cent in 2002-3, compared with 6.8 per cent in1990-1. In the 2002 National Adult Learning Survey, 24 per cent of respondents had done no learning in the previous 3 years.
12 per cent of working age people lived in workless households in 2003. The proportion of people of working age out of work (unemployed) for more than two years has decreased steadily over the last decade.
In 2003, 22 per cent of people in employment were working over 45 hours per week, down from 26 per cent in 1990.
Fatal injury rates have declined by approximately 20 per cent since1998-9, but major injury rates have shown a slight increase in recent years.
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| H5 | Education: Qualifications at age 19 (headline) | |
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| C1 | 16 year-olds with no qualifications | |
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| C2 | Adult literacy/numeracy | |
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| C3 | Learning participation | |
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| C4 | Businesses recognised as Investors In People | |
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| H3 | Employment: Proportion of people of working age who are in work (headline) | |
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| C5 | Proportion of people of working age in workless households | |
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| C6 | Proportion of people of working age out of work for more than two years | |
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| C7 | Proportion of lone parents, long-term ill and disabled people who are economically active | |
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| C8 | People in employment working long hours | |
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| C9 | Low pay † | |
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| C10 | Work fatalities and injury rates; working days lost through illness | |
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| C11 | UK companies implementing ethical trading codes of conduct | |
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