"Figure 6: A higher percentage of those who identified as Muslim were economically inactive","" "Percentage of adults aged 16 to 64 years by employment status by religious affiliation, England and Wales, 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Employment measures the number of people aged 16 to 64 years in paid work. It includes people in self-employment and employed as employees. There are also two minor categories which represent less than 1% of all people in employment. These are: unpaid family workers and people on government-supported training programmes. 2. Economically inactive refers to an individual that is not in employment and has not been seeking work within the last four weeks and/or is unable to start work in the next two weeks. 3. Estimates for those who identified as Buddhist or Jewish and were unemployed are based on reasonably low sample sizes (<26). These estimates may not be as robust and should therefore be used with caution. 4. ""Any other religion"" encompasses those religions that are not otherwise listed separately. 5. Because of the wide confidence intervals around some of these estimates, caution should be exercised when making comparisons across other religious groupings as apparent differences may not be statistically significant. " "Unit","%" "","" "Religion","Economically inactive","Unemployed","Employed" "No religion","19","4","77" "Christian","21","3","76" "Buddhist","28","3","69" "Hindu","20","4","76" "Jewish","23","2","74" "Muslim","39","6","55" "Sikh","22","4","74" "Any other religion","23","3","73"