"Figure 5: Only one in three workers in the East Midlands and East of England said that they worked from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic","" "Percentage of workers who worked from home because of the coronavirus pandemic, country or region, 3 April to 3 May 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Lower and upper 95% confidence levels form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and shows the range of uncertainty around the calculated estimate. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures. 2. People who had a paid job, or did any paid casual work for payment, or did any unpaid or voluntary work in the reference week, and answered ""yes"" when asked the question: ""In the past seven days, have you worked from home because of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak?"". 3. Base population for percentage: adults aged 16 years or over who had a paid job, or did any paid casual work for payment, or did any unpaid or voluntary work in the reference week." "Unit","%" "","" "Country or region","Estimated percentage","Lower 95% confidence level","Upper 95% confidence level" "London","60.6","51.9","69.3" "South East","50.4","43.8","57.0" "West Midlands","49.6","41.1","58.1" "Yorkshire and The Humber","49.1","40.4","57.9" "North West","45.5","38.3","52.7" "South West","44.0","35.8","52.2" "Scotland","42.8","35.1","50.5" "Wales","40.3","32.0","48.5" "North East","35.5","25.5","45.5" "East of England","33.0","25.5","40.5" "East Midlands","32.6","23.7","41.6"