Employment and labour market The ONS has today published new figures on workplace pensions, taken from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The key findings include: · Employee workplace pension scheme membership has increased to 73% in 2017, from 67% in 2016, driven predominantly by increases in membership of occupational defined contribution schemes (including National Employment Savings Trust) within the private sector. · In 2017, there were 89% of public sector employees who were members of a workplace pension scheme compared with 67% of private sector employees, this gap continues to narrow following the introduction of automatic enrolment in 2012. · Those aged 22 to 29 years had the largest growth in pension membership from 65% in 2016 to 73% in 2017. · In 2017, full-time employees in both the public and private sectors had almost equal proportions of workplace pension scheme membership for men and women (92% in public sector, 78% in private sector). People, population and community As part of ONS' work on national wellbeing, looking at the things that matter for people's quality of life, we include aspects of personal relationships across different age groups. Today's data relates to children aged 15 and under.
Looking at their relationships with family and friends, the findings show that: The proportion of children aged 10 to 15 who argued more than once a week with their mother fell significantly from 30.5% in 2009-10 to 25.8% in 2015-16.
The proportion of children aged 10 to 15 who talked to their father more than once a week about things that mattered to them increased significantly from 38.0% in 2009-10 to 45.2% in 2015-16. This improvement was driven largely by girls who reported an increase in the same time period from 35.7% to 45.6% and, for the first time, saw girls report talking to their fathers more regularly than boys in 2015-16.
The proportion of children aged 10 to 15 reporting high or very high happiness with friends fell significantly from 85.8% in 2015 to 80.5% in 2017 with boys being the main driver of this change
The proportion of children aged 10 to 15 who reported using social networking sites for more than three hours on a normal school day increased significantly from 8.6% in 2010-11 to 12.8% in 2015-16 with girls more than twice as likely to spend this length of time using social networking sites.
Commenting on the findings, Dawn Snape from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says: "The quality of relationships has a very significant impact on our sense of personal wellbeing, and children are no exception. This is why we look at their relationships with parents and friends. It's encouraging to see that among girls especially, family relationships are improving. Girls are now more likely to talk to their fathers about things that matter to them than previously. Use of social networking is on the increase among children – among girls more than boys. However, children's happiness with their friends has seen a drop. These findings can help to inform initiatives that are being adopted to reduce loneliness across all age groups in society."
Today's data shows that in 2016 there were 64 deaths related to volatile substances registered – over 80% of these registrations were males.
Between 2001 and 2016, there were 834 deaths involving volatile substances registered in Great Britain.
Volatile substances include, but are not limited to: fuel gases, aerosol propellants, some types of industrial glues, nitrous oxide, alkyl nitrites (known as "poppers), and some anaesthetics.
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