“If you have a job but have been off work because you have been furloughed, in quarantine or in self-isolation, select ‘Temporarily away from work ill, on holiday or temporarily laid off’.”
The data released in December 2021 are south korea rcs data aggregated on the basis of residence: they show results for all persons living in each area. More detailed data based on the matrix of all residences to all workplaces – known as the Special Workplace Statistics – will be released later in 2023.
The journey to work results are notable in that (unsurprisingly) they show a very large number of people to be ‘working at or mainly from home’. The headline data showed that in the week leading up to the census, over 31% of people in England and Wales, aged over 16, and in employment, were working at or from home; this compares with around 5% in 2011. Table 1 shows the total observations for England and Wales for all modes.
Table 1 Mode of travel to work, Census 2021, England and Wales
Method used to travel to workplace Observation % of all persons % of persons in employment % of persons in employment (excluding WFH)
Work mainly at or from home