Oh one of my favourite topics!! I'm glad I found this older diary. I also liked it's the periodic SPATS warnings ;-) I'm looking forward to the instalment on youth and mature workers.

I stand by the fact that the way to make cross country comparisons is to look at the whole population by age group and look at what specific activity or inactivity they are involved in.

Pyramids are my favourite although you do need a lot more data to be able to put them together:

Original diary

Afew do you have or have a source for the raw UK data? I'd love to be able to do comparable pyramids, at some point, for UK and French Youth.