The highly infectious Covid variant led to restrictions being placed on some businesses.
The data also points to an increase in economic inactivity; that refers to people who are not in employment and are not seeking employment.An estimated 95,000 people were economically inactive by reason of being students in the period September to November 2021, which compares to 68,000 during the same period in 2019 and 79,000 in 2020.
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