Mental Illness

(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the ONS release Rising ill-health and economic inactivity because of long-term sickness, UK: 2019 to 2023, dated 26 July 2023, what the prevalence of (a) depression, (b) bad nerves and (c) anxiety is for each age cohort of (i) men and (ii) and for people (A) in work and (B) who are long term sick.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
This question was answered on 15th January 2024

“Depression, bad nerves or anxiety” is a pre-specified single category in the Labour Force Survey questionnaire. We are therefore unable to separate out depression, bad nerves and anxiety from each other.

As such, we have provided a breakdown of working-age people (16-64) self-reporting depression, bad nerves or anxiety as a main or secondary health condition by age and sex for those (A) in work and (B) economically inactive due to long-term sickness, for the most recent quarter of data available. Note this is unpublished data.

Prevalence of depression, bad nerves or anxiety by age and sex, for those in work and those who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness, April-June 2023 (unpublished)

In work

Economically inactive due to long-term sickness

Total

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

2,682,183

1,026,235

1,655,948

1,360,720

566,368

794,352

16 to 24

317,861

108,056

209,805

106,622

48,054

58,568

25 to 34

801,357

306,992

494,365

206,336

94,522

111,814

35 to 49

895,129

333,752

561,377

328,877

133,968

194,909

50 to 64

667,836

277,435

390,401

718,885

289,824

429,061

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS) quarterly person data

Note this is unpublished data from our own analysis of ONS Labour Force Survey data and that the ONS release compared Jan-Mar 2019 to Jan-Mar 2023 data.

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