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Economic Fairness - In work training
During 2023, just below one in five economically active Londoners reported receiving job-related training in the last three months. While this was higher than for the previous year, it is in the context of an overall decreasing trend. There is considerable variation in the proportion of different groups of Londoners that had undertaken job-related training in the last three months....
Economic Fairness - NEET
Since 2015, all young people aged under 18 in England must be in some sort of training, whether that is in a more academic setting or alongside employment. The data used to look at young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET) therefore cover the 18-24 age group, rather than the 16-24 group previously used elsewhere. The proportion of...
Economic Fairness - No/low qualifications
London has a relatively well qualified population, with more than 60 per cent of the population holding at least a National Qualifications Framework Level 4 qualification – higher than A level or equivalent standard. Just over one in ten London residents of working age has no or low qualifications, decreasing steadily from around 18 per cent in 2011. The gap...
Economic Fairness - KS4 achievement
The pupils at London’s schools have higher GCSE scores than those from any other region. The average “Attainment 8” score, which gives a score across various core and optional elements, is more complex than the previous GCSE measures. London pupils do better than those across England as a whole on each element of the Attainment 8 score and across all...
Key datasets
This page brings together links to key housing-related datasets on the London Datastore or the main Greater London Authority website. Housing stock Supply Housing costs Housing need General
Economic Fairness - School readiness
Early Years Foundation Stage tests have shown marginally higher levels of school readiness among London’s young children than those in nearly every other region of England, except for the South East which scores more highly in some metrics. This regional disparity has remained for the 2024/25 data, though the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) has been significantly revised since...
Economic Fairness - Parental Employment
There are a number of attributes associated with reduced rates of employment. Among these is motherhood. Fathers have very high employment rates, with over 90 per cent of fathers in London and the UK as a whole in employment. This is around 20 percentage points higher than employment rates among men who are not living in a parental role. Mothers...
Economic Fairness - Underemployment
There are different ways to consider underemployment, or whether people in work have the level of employment that they want. Nearly three per cent of all London residents in employment reported being in a part-time job because they could not find full-time work, very similar to the UK-wide figure. Both in London and nationally, this proportion rose through the recession...
Economic Fairness - Unemployment
Unemployment rates in London have tracked a little higher than those for the UK overall, standing at 5.0 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively for 2023. Unemployment rose at the start of the pandemic but stayed significantly lower than during the financial crisis. Between 2022 and 2023, unemployment rose both in London and across the UK – the UK...
Economic Fairness - London Living Wage (LLW)
Living Wage employers pay all their direct employees and other employees working directly on external contracts, such as security staff, cleaners, catering staff etc, the London Living Wage. The GLA group and an increasing number of employers across London (almost 2,600) are Living Wage employers. This means that more than 100,000 employees are working in jobs that have received an...