Decline and fall: unemployment among Britain's non-white ethnic communities 1960-1999

The declining employment fortunes of Britain's non-white communities, relat ive to whites, are explained. To achieve this comparison, some historical o fficial sources of unemployment data are reviewed. The earliest known offic ial time series on unemployment of non-whites dates back to 1960. This hist orical context is explored, especially the reluctance to make the early dat a more widely known. An unemployment series for non-white males and females from 1970 to 1999 is derived in two separate ways by splicing together off icial sources. These series are compared with unemployment of whites to dem onstrate a relative increase in unemployment of non-whites.