"Figure 5: While employment rates generally increased, a significantly lower percentage of those who identified as Muslim were in employment throughout this period","" "Percentage of adults aged 16 to 64 years in employment by religious affiliation, England and Wales, 2012 to 2018 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Employment measures the number of people aged 16 to 64 in paid work. It includes people in self-employment and employed as employees. There are also two minor categories which represent less than 1% of all people in employment. These are: unpaid family workers and people on government-supported training programmes. 2. ""Any other religion"" encompasses those religions that are not otherwise listed separately. 3. Confidence intervals have not been displayed to improve readability but are included in the reference tables. 4. Because of the wide confidence intervals around some of these estimates, caution should be exercised when making comparisons across other religious groupings as apparent differences may not be statistically significant. " "Unit","%" "","" "Religion","No religion","Christian","Buddhist","Hindu","Jewish","Muslim","Sikh","Any other religion" "2012","72","72","66","69","72","47","68","68" "2013","73","73","60","69","70","48","69","70" "2014","74","74","66","73","73","50","69","69" "2015","76","75","70","73","77","51","68","71" "2016","76","75","69","73","79","53","71","71" "2017","77","76","66","74","78","53","71","73" "2018","77","76","69","76","74","55","74","73"