You asked
Can you please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.
The estimated number of people who have difficulty in hearing or are registered as deaf according to the Annual Population Survey. If possible, please provide data for the following years:
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
If possible could you please break down the response by U.K region, year, employment status, occupation type, age band, sex, and by ethnicity?
We said
Thank you for your request.
In order to provide the analysis request, we would need to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
However, the information you have requested can be obtained from the customer services team of ONS Social Services division. This team provides an ad hoc analysis service, including, of relevance in this instance, tabulations of Labour force (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS) data, both of which contain question variables relating to health related conditions. Please note, this service is subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate.
Details of the variables included in these datasets can be viewed in the LFS User Guides https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/labourforcesurveyuserguidance
If you would like to enquire about our service then please contact socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk.
If you are able to do your own cross-tabulations you could purchase an anonymised LFS or APS dataset from the UK Data Service. Details on costs and how to download the data can be found on their website:
Advice for commercial users - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-toaccess/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users
Charges - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx