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 "title": "Working and workless households, UK",
 "category": "labour-market",
 "summary": "The share of UK households with at least one person aged 16 to 64 in which no adult works, with the working and mixed households beside them, each April to June since 1996, from the ONS's Labour Force Survey household tables (Table A).",
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  "Households with at least one person aged 16 to 64, as the ONS counts them in the Labour Force Survey: a working household is one where every adult of 16 and over is in work, a workless household one where none is, and a mixed household one with some of each.",
  "The ONS's household estimates are not seasonally adjusted, so the hub compares April to June each year only; the table's other quarters are left out. They are not weighted in line with the Labour Force Survey's latest headline measures, and the ONS cautions that the survey's sample changes from 2023 and 2024 affect them.",
  "Shares are the ONS's own, unrounded, from its table of percentages; the levels (meta) are its estimates of the number of households, from the table of levels."
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    "Working households": 11951582.0,
    "Mixed households": 5712930.0,
    "all": 20667343.0
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    "Mixed households": 5656309.0,
    "all": 20866470.0
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    "Working households": 12493972.0,
    "Mixed households": 5590005.0,
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    "all": 20937218.0
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    "all": 21097279.0
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    "all": 21157416.0
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    "all": 21298274.0
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    "all": 21408686.0
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    "all": 21755690.0
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  "label": "Households where no adult works",
  "value": 14.35615765690112,
  "period": "2026 APR-JUN",
  "note": "April to June, households with at least one person aged 16 to 64; 3,160,981 households"
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