Class Statistics

• Employment

  • 7% of UK is privately educated, but 29% of MPs are (Sutton Trust)
  • 66% of CEOs investigated by People Managing People were privately educated
• Education

  • 36% of working class boys and 24% of working class girls are more likely to underachieve at GCSEs compared to the middle class (Sutton Trust)
  • 77% of children from professional backgrounds attained 9-4 grades at GCSEs, double that of working class (Department of Education)
• Health

  • ONS found working class are likely to die faster
  • ONS found 25 year life-expectancy gap between middle class and working class
  • ONS: deprived areas are likely to live 60 years, those in middle and upper class are expected to 70 years
  • ONS: teenagers from manual Labour backgrounds 8x more likely to get pregnant than those from professional backgrounds
• Criminal Justice System

  • CSEW 80% of all crimes occur in deprived areas
• Wealth

  • Poorest 10% have no wealth