You asked
Please could you provide me with the current statistics that show how many 'Male Refugees/immigrants' are out of work in Stockport, Cheshire. Any similar information would be greatly appreciated.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding the number of male refugee/immigrant workers who are out of work in Stockport. We do not currently have any published or ad hoc tables that show this information. However, it can be obtained from the Labour Force Survey datasets.
The ONS provides a bespoke service for analysis that is not already published on our website. You may be able to obtain this information 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, ONS considers 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.
Another route would be to access the Annual Population Survey (APS) datasets at the UK Data Service if you are able to run your own analysis. You can access anonymised APS datasets from the UK Data Service. Details of how to access the data can be found here - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access.aspx
Data can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial purposes but if charges are applicable, you will be notified during the ordering process. 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