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accommodation, and those living in Institutions and other non-private residences (Table 6.35) The differences are large- employment rates among those in social rented
accommodation were two-thirds those of respondents living in owner-occupied
accommodation (30 percent compared with49 per cent). This housing tenure effect may
be an indication of the degree to which young people from more socially disadvantaged
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rent freeaccommodation and non-private residences are small, making interpretation of
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Respondents with sole responsibility for their housing costs had relatively low employment rates on leaving New Deal, but they were not much lower than employment
• rates among those whose housing costs were met by parents or other relatives (34 per cent against 38 per cent) Employment rates were highest where leavers were sharing • housing costs with people other than relatives or partners 47 per cent of respondents in
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this situationhousing costs are reduced through sharing the burden. On the other hand, young peoplewere working. It is possible that working becomes more feasible when • may only move away from home to live with others once they have ajob to go to.Table 6 35 Housing tenure, by leaver destinations
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• Employment rates were particularly low (26 per cent) where housing costs were being met by a partner. Respondents in this situation were much more likely than in other cases
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6.4 13 Multiple disadvantageI. Recent debates about social exclusion have brought into focus once again the problems
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1987) There hasbeen concernthatthosefacingmultiple socialdisadvantages may suffer more than others in the labour market Table 6.36 seems to support this contention byI
presenting leaver destinations for respondents with different degrees of multiple socialU
disadvantages. The table indicates that employment rates fell and unemployment ratesrose with the number of social disadvantages leavers facedU
Table 6.36 Multiplesocial disadvantage,by leaver destinations
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Weighted base 544 892 661 286 39I
Unweighted base 456 855 653 290 48Base all leaverswith non-missing data onfour data items in theindex Note figuresinparentheses are full-
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Before reading too much into this table, the reader should bear in mind that this indicator is not exhaustive and has not been ngorously validated (see footnote 4). Respondents score a point for each of the following four known markers of disadvantage
• Living in social rented accommodation,
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• Having no job before the qualifying spell of unemploymentThepercentage in the £Other~category alsorose with the degree of social disadvantage.
This was due to the increasing incidence of long-term sickness, injury and disability
among the most socially disadvantaged. Among those with a score of zero on the social
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disadvantage index, the rate of long-term sickness was 3 per cent. This rose to 19 per cent among those with a score of 3, and 23 per cent among those with a score of 4.
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reporting one or more job search difficulties over the previous year, compared to 54 per
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cent reporting no such difficulties. The full-time employment rate for those withproblems was half that of those with no problems (21 per cent against 40 per cent). Those reporting problems were more likely to say they were unemployed and claiming
benefits (33 per cent against 24 per cent) and long-term sick (12 per cent against I per
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There were notable differences in labour market destinations for leavers in different
regions of Bntazn However, it is not possible to say whether the observed differences are true regional effects without controlling for other factors which vary with region, such as the composition of the unemployed, labour market conditions, and so on The region with the lowest employment and full-time employment rates was the South West.
London and the South East had the second lowest full-time employment rate
Table 6.37 region, by leaverdestinations
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Weightedbase 1726 425 122 194U
Unweighted base 1629 383 -~ 109 232Base all leavcrs Note figuresin parentheses are full-time employment rates
Leaver unemployment rates were higher in private-sector and consortium-led units of
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delivery than they were in other delivery areas, though the differences were not great (Table 6 38). Leavers in private sector areas were most likely to say that they were • unemployed and claiming benefits (37 per cent said so, compared to 30 per cent in consortium and ES individual contract areas, and 27 per cent in ES joint partnership• areas) However, employment rates were roughly similar across the four delivery types The dLfference in unemployment rates is explained instead by the percentages in the ~Other’ category this was larger in delivery areas where the ES operated alone or in a • Jointpartnership Here long-term sickness rates were a little higher (10 per cent in ES led areas, 7 per cent in ES Joint partnership areas, and 4 per cent in both consortium and
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6 5 Experiences ofNew Deal and subsequent labourmarket outcomes for leavers1
This section analyses associations between respondents’ experiences on New Deal and • their subsequent labour market destinations. It is worth stressing that perceptions of New Deal may be influenced by subsequent labour market experiences, rather than the otherI
way round, so that what respondents say about their New Deal expenences may say moreabout their satisfaction with their current circumstances than it does about New Deal
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Gateway leavers and those recalling little or nothing of New Deal (the figures are 31, 41 and 37 per cent respectively; Table 6.39) Over half of Option leaverswere unemployed, compared to four-in-ten Gateway leavers
These findings are not surprising since those leaving Options in the six months after
programme entry aremostly Option non-compteters leaving through dissatisfaction with
New Deal, or because of difficulties in maintaining their participation. By wave two of
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the survey, Option completers will be counted among Option leavers, and it may be thattheir post-programme destinations will be different.