^{note (1) page 12} Unless otherwise stated, all figures in this section are for Great Britain only, and come from the Ministry of Labour Gazette; the figures for unemployment exclude the tem porarily stopped.

^{note (2) page 12} It is of some interest that, in the 1951 Census, 340 thousand men in Great Britain described themselves as ‘out of work’; even if one excludes the 65 thousand who were over 60 years old, the figure is still much bigger than the 165 thousand men registered as unemployed.

^{note (3) page 12} The figures are derived from the Ministry of Labour's annual figures of the age of civil employees (for which the latest figures are for end-May 1957, published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette, June 1958, and which exclude the self- employed) and from the Registrar-General's figures of the age distribution of the total population (Annual Abstract of Statistics).

^{note (4) page 12} This is the increase obtained by taking the 1951 percent ages of men in each age-group who were at work (or registered as unemployed), and applying them to the 1957 age distri bution.

^{note (1) page 13} It is difficult to judge the importance of this ‘classification effect’, but it has probably grown with the general rise in unemployment.

^{note (1) page 14} Northern, East and West Ridings, North-Western, Scotland, Wales.

^{note (2) page 14} Midland, North Midland, Eastern and Southern, London and South-Eastern, South-Western.

^{note (1) page 15} The extent to which employers notify vacancies varies from industry to industry; this may explain a little of the difference, but not by any means all of it.