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In the UK, all 15-year-olds are considered to be economically inactive. They are also often presented as participation rates, rather than economic inactivity rates, whereby economic inactivity is the inverse of participation.
Figure 1: Change in unemployment, employment and inactivity rates over the quarter by gender (Jul-Sep 18 to Oct-Dec 18)Regional labour market: Headline indicators for ScotlandTable 1 shows the unemployment, employment and inactivity rates and the change on the previous quarter.
Those are the UK’s two key labour market challenges. First, we need a strategy for getting people who are out of work and are economically inactive into work.
We are aware at a local level of the growing gap in children’s levels of activity. We are trying to get the most inactive children to be active and we have a focus on girls in sport, but we hear evidence from our schools and nurseries t...
However, the composition of the economically inactive population has changed. Fewer people are economically inactive for reasons such as looking after family or home, but more people are economically inactive due to ill health.
The problem with the statistics that Douglas Ross puts to me is that, in the most recent economic inactivity data available, there was a significant fall in economic inactivity in Scotland and an increase in economic participation.
If the member will give me a minute or two, I will get there. Certainty is needed soon to avoid a scenario in which many scale back their activities or leave the sector altogether, as some have already done.
Our current Scottish Government Strategic Guidance letter asks us to “expand your reach to the inactive and underrepresented in sport and physical activity… through more innovative and creative community based approaches.