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Socio-economic Position

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This chapter provides a focus on the socio-economic position of Black Africans, with respect to their housing circumstances, education, and labour market. The section on housing circumstances considers housing tenure, dwelling type, whether the accommodation is self-contained, central heating, overcrowding (rooms and bedrooms), and the housing circumstances of Black African subgroups. The analysis of education encompasses an investigation of generic measures (degree level and no qualifications), variation in educational attainment by Census country of birth, linguistic, national origin, and religion subgroups, and reasons for variations in educational attainment. The final section on the labour market focuses on trends in labour market participation by ethnic group; economic activity by ethnic group; differences in labour market participation by gender, occupation, and industry (low-skilled jobs, nurses, doctors, and social work staff), self-employment and entrepreneurship, hours worked, young people in the labour market, and Black African subgroup variations in labour market participation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Table DC4206EW. Dwelling type by type of central heating in household by occupancy rating (bedrooms) by ethnic group of Household Reference Person (HRP) (from Nomis).

  2. 2.

    In those local authorities where 90 % or more of pupils from the Black African group are categorised using the extended codes.

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    Amongst the 25 LEAs who classified 90 % or more of their pupils using the Black African extended codes, data are available for the proportion of pupils achieving 5+A*–C GCSEs in 2003 and 2005 (Department for Education and Skills 2006b).

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    2011 Census table DC6216EW.

  5. 5.

    Question 37 on the 2011 Census England Household Questionnaire asked: At your workplace, what is (was) the main activity of your employer or business?

  6. 6.

    General Medical Council. List of Registered Medical Practitioners: Statistics. http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/register/search_stats.asp

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    In addition, there were 19 Black or Black British doctors whose detailed ethnic group was not specified.

  8. 8.

    The percentage of male and female workers is based on 152 councils but with less than 100 % employee completion rate and so can be treated as an estimate for England.

  9. 9.

    The number of hours that a person aged 16 and over in employment in the week before the census, worked in their main job (including paid and unpaid overtime).

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  2. Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool in London, London, UK

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Aspinall, P.J., Chinouya, M.J. (2016). Socio-economic Position. In: The African Diaspora Population in Britain. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45654-0_6

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