"Figure 8: Economic inactivity by region and comparison year on year, seasonally adjusted, January 2015 to March 2015 and January 2016 to March 2016","" "UK regions","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage" "","" "","Jan 2015 to Mar 2015","Jan 2016 to Mar 2016" "North East","25.1","23.5" "North West","23.9","22.8" "Yorkshire and The Humber","23.0","23.0" "East Midlands","22.2","22.0" "West Midlands","23.9","24.3" "East ","19.5","19.4" "London","23.0","22.1" "South East","19.4","18.6" "South West","18.8","19.1" "Wales","25.3","23.6" "Scotland","20.7","22.0" "Northern Ireland","27.2","26.3" "UK","22.1","21.7"