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SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - Age, gender, and education
Inactivity due to ill health or disability has typically been lower for women than for men (explaining 20-40% of inactivity), and highest for women 50-64 compared to younger women.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 March 2025
Meeting of the Parliament 26 March 2025
Long-term Economic Inactivity (Fife) To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle long-term economic inactivity in Fife.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 April 2017
Labour Market Update: April 2017 - Guest Indicator: Economic inactivity
Guest Indicator: Economic inactivity
Economic inactivity in Scotland has risen in each of the last 5 quarters and is now the highest it has been since 2012 (Sep-Nov 2012 23.3%).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Devolved powers available to support physical activity provision in Scotland
Devolved powers available to support physical activity provision in Scotland
Whilst significant challenges exist in addressing such issues in the 25 years since devolution, the powers available to the Scottish Government have gradually increased.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 July 2018
Labour market update: July 2018 - Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity rates are higher for women than for men.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 June 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 14 June 2023
Economically Inactive People (NHS Waiting Lists and Long Covid) To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the reportedly rising number of people of working age who are economically inactive are inactive as a result of national health service waiting lists or long Covi...
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 January 2023
COVID-19 Recovery Committee 19 January 2023
If the lowest level of economic inactivity to which we could ever hope to get is 15 per cent—which still is a large number, because a lot of people genuinely cannot be economically active—a fall of 0.8 per cent in one year from 22.1 to 21.3 per cent is a very big one.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 December 2017
Labour Market update: December 2017 - Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity rates are higher for women than for men.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - Inactivity following the Covid-19 pandemic
Economic inactivity and ill-health in Scotland. Retrieved from https://fraserofallander.org/economic-inactivity-and-ill-health-in-scotland/ [accessed 14 March 2023].
Last updated:
21 September 2023
Fedcap Scotland Additional Evidence
We have also recently launched a pilot project in Fife to provide more in-depth analysis and insight into how to engage with and motivate economically inactive individuals in the community. 1 Last week’s report by the Office for Budget Responsibility laid bare the scale of the challenge of economic inactivity and how it has been driven by the rise of long-term sickness/health related inactivity since the start of the pandemic.
