Summary

How the employment of men and women aged 16 to 64 years with children has changed over the past two decades and what the current picture looks like.

Publications

• Families and the labour market, England: 2018

  How the employment of men and women aged 16 to 64 years with children has changed over the past two decades and what the current picture looks like.

Data

• Families and the labour market, England: Labour Force Survey time series

  Time series data on maternal and paternal employment by age of youngest dependent child from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Data are for the period April to June 1996 to April to June 2018.

• Families and the labour market, England

  Supporting data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS) on maternal and paternal employment, broken down by age, sex, number of dependent children, family type, skill level and employment type.

• Families and the labour market, England: local authority dataset

  Annual employment rates of parents and non-parents by local authority, using the Annual Population Survey (APS).

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