The average working week for full-time workers in Wales was 36 hours per week in the first quarter of 2024, compared with 36.2 hours in the same quarter of 2023.

WIMD is the Welsh Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales. It is designed to identify those small areas where there are the highest concentrations of several different types of deprivation. As such, WIMD is a measure of multiple deprivation that is both an area-based measure and a measure of relative deprivation. WIMD ranks all small areas in Wales from 1 (most deprived) to 1,909 (least deprived). The Index has three main components: - The Index itself, which is a set of ranks; - The ranks of the eight types of deprivation, or domains, from which the overall Index is constructed; - The underlying indicators, which are directly measurable, and which are combined to create the domain ranks. Many, but not all, of the indicators are produced as rates. The units depend on what is being measured. All of these components are calculated for each of the LSOAs in Wales. The overall 2019 WIMD ranks and the ranks of the eight domains of deprivation are published on the StatsWales website. Where available, the underlying indicator data is now published annually on StatsWales.

In 2021, grassroots football contributed over 550 million British pounds to the Welsh economy. This figure has been forecast to rise to 692 million British pounds by 2026. Football remains one of the most popular sports in Wales, with the men's national team qualifying for the World Cup in 2022.

Comparison of quarterly country and regional GDP estimates by industry and region from our latest published timeseries, compiled using the new methodology of constraining to national totals against previously published estimates compiled using the old methodology.

In 2021, grassroots football directly contributed around 263.5 million British pounds to the Welsh economy, as well as generating approximately 205.7 million British pounds in estimated healthcare savings. Overall, grassroots football in Wales was worth just over 553 million British pounds, a figure which is set to grow by 25 percent by 2026.

Statistics on Economic Inactivity includes for Wales and the UK. Annual data at Welsh local authority level.

Source agency: Welsh Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Economic Inactivity in Wales

This file contains the names and codes for National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales as at 31 December 2017. (File Size - 16 KB)

This dataset provides a quarterly snapshot of benefit claimants at particular points in time and are based on 100% of claimants so is not subject to any sampling error. Data are for the number of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming one or more key DWP benefits and the combination of benefits they are claiming. The aim of the Statistical Group typology is to present each person by the main reasons why they are claiming benefit. Each client is classified just once. Benefits are arranged hierarchically and claimants are assigned to the top most benefit which they receive. Thus a person who is a lone parent and receives Incapacity Benefit would be classified as incapacity benefits. For this reason the group lone parent, for example, will not contain all lone parents claiming Income Support. Some will be included in the incapacity benefits group instead. Data are not seasonally adjusted so any comparisons should be made year on year.

These data are counts of all persons claiming unemployment-related benefits i.e. Jobseeker’s Allowance.

Dataset population: Persons

Economic activity of HRP

Economic activity relates to whether or not a person who was aged 16 and over was working or looking for work in the week before census. Rather than a simple indicator of whether or not someone was currently in employment, it provides a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market.

A person's economic activity is derived from their 'activity last week'. This is an indicator of their status or availability for employment - whether employed, unemployed, or their status if not employed and not seeking employment. Additional information included in the economic activity classification is also derived from information about the number of hours a person works and their type of employment - whether employed or self-employed.

The census concept of economic activity is compatible with the standard for economic status defined by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). It is one of a number of definitions used internationally to produce accurate and comparable statistics on employment, unemployment and economic status.

The concept of a Household Reference Person (HRP) was introduced in the 2001 Census (in common with other government surveys in 2001/2) to replace the traditional concept of the 'head of the household'. HRPs provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to characteristics of the chosen reference person.

This dataset provides data on the structure of enterprises active in Wales, including estimates for the very smallest businesses that operate below the VAT threshold. The variables analysed are counts of the enterprises active in each area, together with related employment and turnover aggregates in each of the given size bands, based on the number of UK employees in the enterprise as a whole.

Religion by economic activity status, by sex, by age, and religion by occupation, by sex, by age, England and Wales combined: Census 2021.

The data in this dataset relates to the economic activity of persons by disabled status. As the question on disability only covers people of working age in the survey, this dataset is restricted to analysis of the working age population. Data for the population aged 16 and over, which are also usually considered when measuring economic activity, are not available. NOTE From 2010-2020 the female state pension age is changing from 60 to 65. The ONS changed the routing of the disability questions so that from 2010 all persons aged 16-64 were asked those questions, prior to that they were only asked to those aged 16/59(f)/64(m) and to those in employment. Therefore data prior to 2010 is on a working age basis (16-59/64) and data after that is available on both a 16-64 and a working age basis. Comparisons should not be made between the working age data prior to 2010 and the 16-64 data after 2010. For a long run series the working age data should be used. In April 2013 the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Annual Population Survey (APS) adopted a new standardised question on individuals with health problems. This has led to a discontinuity in the series between responses for March 2013 and April 2013. This will lead to the datasets for July 2012 to June 2013, October 2012 to September 2013 and January 2013 to December 2013 containing responses on two different basis over the period of each dataset. Due to this discontinuity, WG has decided to follow ONS' approach to suspend this series until a full year’s data is available on the APS and will launch a new series based on the new questions from the April 2013 to March 2014 APS. These new series will still be discontinuous when compared with the old series but will be internally consistent.

This statistic displays the proportion of individuals who are active for less than 30 minutes per week, by socio-economic class of household reference person (NS-SEC) in Wales in 2015. According to the survey, 50 percent of adults active for less than 30 minutes per week have never worked or are long-term unemployed.

Graph and download economic data for Real Gross Domestic Product: Private Services-Providing Industries in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area County, AK (REALGDPSERV02198) from 2009 to 2023 about Wales-Hyder, services-providing, AK, private, real, industry, GDP, and USA.

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales by economic activity status. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

As Census 2021 was during a unique period of rapid change, take care when using this data for planning purposes.

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Economic activity status (20 categories)

People aged 16 years and over are economically active if, between 15 March and 21 March 2021, they were:

• in employment (an employee or self-employed)

• unemployed, but looking for work and could start within two weeks

• unemployed, but waiting to start a job that had been offered and accepted

It is a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market during this period. Economically inactive are those aged 16 years and over who did not have a job between 15 March to 21 March 2021 and had not looked for work between 22 February to 21 March 2021 or could not start work within two weeks.

The census definition differs from International Labour Organization definition used on the Labour Force Survey, so estimates are not directly comparable.

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Lower Tier Local Authorities

Lower tier local authorities provide a range of local services. In England there are 309 lower tier local authorities. These are made up of non-metropolitan districts (181), unitary authorities (59), metropolitan districts (36) and London boroughs (33, including City of London). In Wales there are 22 local authorities made up of 22 unitary authorities. Of these local authority types, only non-metropolitan districts are not additionally classified as upper tier local authorities.

Of all the countries that comprise the United Kingdom, England had by far the highest gross domestic product in 2023 at over 2.1 trillion British pounds. In this year, Scotland's GDP amounted to over 187.2 billion pounds, with the size of the Welsh economy being just under 58 billion pounds, and that of Northern Ireland being 32.8 billion pounds.

This file contains the names and codes for National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales as at 31 December 2017. (File Size - 16 KB)Field Names - NAER17CD, NAER17NMField Types - Text, TextField Lengths - 9, 17REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/National_Assembly_Economic_Regions_Dec_2017_Names_and_Codes_in_Wale_2022/FeatureServer