How many refugees are in employment?

Product Description

The Home Office and Office for National Statistics have linked Home Office refugee data to the HMRC PAYE-RTI (Pay As You Earn Real Time Information) dataset to determine if someone was in employment each year and how many years that was after they were granted refugee status. If there was a PAYE-RTI entry for a year, we considered an individual to be in employment. If there was no PAYE-RTI entry for a year, we considered the individual to not be in employment for that year. Note that those considered unemployed may include those who are not able to work due to disability or long-term illness and would otherwise be considered economically inactive. PAYE-RTI can only tell us about employment. It cannot tell us about self-employment. If someone did not have a record in the PAYE-RTI dataset, we considered them not employed but that does not necessarily mean they were not working.

The groups covered by the statistics shown here are:

• refugees who were granted asylum in the period 2015 to 2023
• refugees who were resettled into the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS)
• refugees who were resettled to the UK under the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS)
• small numbers of refugees who were resettled to the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) Pathway 2