Moreover, the average number of hours worked each week also rose by 1.2%, again well above trend.
Secondly, although more people are working, the average number of hours worked has been falling for several years.
Also falling in October according to Intuit was the number of hours worked.
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That is because the total number of hours worked in the UK has also risen sharply in the past few years.
Rather, bosses are calculating it on the basis of the total number of hours worked in the year, then dividing that figure by 52.
As the chart indicates, the average number of hours worked initially dropped during the recession, but is now at 102.7 percent of its pre-downturn level.
For the same number of hours worked, workers can enjoy the same standard of living even as they allocate more of their working time to purchasing health care.
That has only been possible because the number of people in work has fallen by four percentage points in that time, the number of hours worked has fallen even more.
We should bear in mind that total output and our standard of living depend on the productivity of our workers (output per hour worked) times the number of hours worked.
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The index takes into account many different types of diversity including gender, age, ethnicity, disability, country of birth, skills and education, number of hours worked, language, and sectoral and geographical distribution.
Official unemployment sits at 8.9%, average weekly earnings have declined the last three months, and the aggregate number of hours worked grew a paltry 0.2% in February, after showing no improvement in January.
You might think, then, that if we looked at the average number of hours worked by all those of working age - dividing the total number of hours worked by the working age population - Germany would come out on top.
Ally that to the job figures, rather more Scots coming into the labour market, and the measure of the number of hours worked, for which the Scottish figure by this summer was more than 6% down on the middle of 2008, while the UK figure was 1.4% down.
They were adding up the national total spent on child care, and dividing it by the number of hours women worked to get the per hour cost of care.
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Family finances were also put under pressure by time needed to care for the child with cancer, with three in five respondents saying they had to reduce the number of hours they worked.
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