+ Education and childcare
          + Elections
          + Health and social care
          + Household characteristics
          + Housing
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   for the foreseeable future.

   This action will protect the delivery and quality of our remaining
   outputs as well as ensuring we can respond to new demands as a direct
   result of COVID-19. More details about the impact on labour market
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    2. Annual changes
    3. Historical context
    4. Industrial analyses
    5. Regional analysis
    6. Cause of disputes
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3. Historical context

   As shown in Figure 3, the amount of industrial action has significantly
   reduced since the early 1990s. This is a stark contrast to the level of
   action seen when the miners went on strike in the 1970s and 1980s. The
   1910s and 1920s saw even greater levels of industrial action
   culminating in the general strike of 1926.

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    3. Stoppages in progress during year. Prior to 2015 a dispute was
       counted as a new stoppage if there was a gap of more than one month
       between instances of industrial action. From 2015 disputes with a
       gap of more than one month between instances of industrial action
       are counted as a single stoppage.

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4. Industrial analyses

   Table 3 shows labour disputes statistics for 2018 broken down into 13
   industry groups, classified according to the Standard Industrial
   Classification 2007: SIC 2007. The largest sector, in terms of working
   days lost and workers involved was education, which accounted for:
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   Public administration
   and defence;
   compulsory social
   security 84 15.9 12 8.8 4
   Education 85 179.4 67 20.3 17
   Human Health
   and social work 86 to 88 4.9 1 1.2 6
   Other 90 to 99 0.8 1 0.1 3

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   Dataset Table 2 shows regional strike rates between 2009 and 2018, with
   a further breakdown of the figures for 2018 by industrial grouping.
   When interpreting these figures, it is important to bear in mind that
   the industrial composition of employment in a region is a major
   influencing factor on the scale of labour disputes it experiences.
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7. Disputes by duration

   Labour disputes statistics cover the number of days that strike action
   took place, not the number of days the parties involved in the dispute
   were in disagreement.
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   Notes
    1. The statistics cover the number of days that strike action took
       place, not the number of days the parties involved in the dispute
       were actually in disagreement.
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   a previously recorded dispute by the same organisation and for the same
   cause. Prior to 2015, a dispute was counted as a new stoppage if there
   was a gap of more than one month between instances of industrial
   action. From 2015, disputes with a gap of more than one month between
   instances of industrial action are counted as a single stoppage.

   The statistics exclude disputes that do not result in a stoppage of
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   involved in the dispute is 350 – the sum of all those involved on the
   first day, and those joining for the first time on subsequent days.
   However, the number of workers taking strike action for the first time
   during a dispute cannot always be easily ascertained. In such cases,
   the statistics record the highest number involved at any one time (300