nCube : Persons of Working Age by Country of Birth

nCubes hold all the statistics presented by the Vision of Britain system, and are defined as combinations of variables. For example, the age-sex tables that appear in most census reports are held as two-dimensional nCubes in which one dimension is a variable categorising sex and the other variable defines a set of age groups. nCubes can have many dimensions, such as age by sex by occupation by cause of death, or just one.

Identifier:

N_WORKERS_BY_BIRTH_CNTRY_3WAY

Name:

Persons of Working Age by Country of Birth

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

the United Kingdom ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

Country of birth in this dataset is intended to capture the impact of Brexit on EU-UK migration of people of working age (16-64 years). Respondents to the Annual Population Survey are asked what country they were born in. People not born in the UK or Republic of Ireland are classified as either born in the European Union (EU) or outside the EU (non-EU). The EU is defined as the countries that were in the EU when the UK left the EU single market – which granted freedom of movement to live, work or study in any EU Member State – at the end of December 2020. Those born in the Republic of Ireland are not included in the born in the EU category for the purposes of these data on the basis that the Common Travel Area agreement between the UK and Republic of Ireland maintains the mutual right to live, work and study in either country without an immigration visa. In order to best reflect the impact of Brexit on EU-UK migration, country of birth rather than nationality was used because many EU nationals applied for British citizenship following Brexit. Neither country of birth or nationality perfectly captures people who lost the freedom of movement between the UK and the EU following Brexit, since some people born outside the UK have British citizenship and some people born in the UK do not. Data labelled as born in the EU is the population aged 16-64 years born in the EU (excluding the UK and the Republic of Ireland). Data labelled as born outside the EU is the population aged 16-64 years born outside the EU. The population that falls neither in the EU or non-EU categories are, by definition, born in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. (Donald Houston, University of Birmingham)

nCube "Persons of Working Age by Country of Birth" is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Universes, definining what the values in datasets add up to:

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nCube "Persons of Working Age by Country of Birth" contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

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Persons of Working Age by Country of Birth: Data map listing

Each of our datasets, or nCubes, combines one or more variables (Var) each of which consists of a set of categories. The data map lists all the possible combinations of categories. The cell references are the identifiers held in our main table of statistics, recording what each number measures.