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<p>The Office for National Statistics use the Labour Force Survey and Annual Population
Survey to provide estimates of employment nationally and at a sub-national level.</p><p>
</p><p>For July-September 2018, there were 27.45 million people employed in England.
The employment rate was 75.8%, an increase of 5.2 percentage points since the 2010
election.</p><p> </p><p>However, trends in employment in Kettering and Northamptonshire
are not possible to ascertain robustly, due to small numbers of the people with these
characteristics in these survey samples.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the East Midlands
region are available. For July-September 2018, there were 2.27 million people employed
in the East Midlands region. The employment rate was 75.0%, an increase of 4.1 percentage
points since 2010.</p>
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