You asked
Please provide the number or percentage of women in full-time employment, part-time employment, unemployment or inactivity by the age of youngest child (under 5, 5 to 10, 11 to 15 and no children) and the number of children in the household.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding the number or percentage of women in full-time employment, unemployment or inactivity by the age of the youngest child (under 5, 5 to 10, 11 to 15 and no children) and the number of children in the household.
This information can be obtained from the customer services team of ONS Social Surveys Division. Special extracts and tabulations of data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk.
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
If you are able to run your own analysis, another route would be to access the Annual Population Survey (APS) datasets at the UK Data Service. You can access anonymised APS datasets from the UK Data Service.
Data can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial purposes but if charges are applicable, you will be notified during the ordering process.
Details of how to access the data can be found here - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access.aspx
Advice for commercial users - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users
Charges - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx
List of APS datasets at the UK Data Service - http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/?q=annual+population+survey
APS/LFS user guides- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/labourforcesurveyuserguidance