Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2005

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B1.40 Employment status¹: 2000/01 - 2004/05
percentage of individuals by employment status
NEW INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS/CLIENTS

2000/01^r

2001/02^r

2002/03^r

2003/04^r

2004/05

New Individual patients/clients

10 581

11 685

11 718

13 086

14 332

Information available (=100%)

10 267

10 610

10 765

11 987

13 002

percentage

Never employed

13

14

14

15

16

Unemployed (1 year or longer)

53

54

58

58

56

Unemployed (less than a year)

18

16

14

12

12

Employed²

13

11

10

10

11

Student

2

3

3

4

4

Other³

2

2

2

1

2

1 All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.
2 Employment includes training.
3 Other includes: housewife/husband, retired and invalidity/sick.
r Revised.
See also supplementary information
Source: Scottish Drug Misuse Database.