"Figure 7.7: Employee membership of a workplace pension: by contracted out status, 1997 to 2013","" "United Kingdom, percentages","" "","" "Notes","1. Active membership of a pension that is arranged through an employer, main pension only 2. Results for 2005 are based on a new questionnaire and may not be comparable with earlier results (indicated by the first dotted line). In particular, breakdowns by contracting out status include stakeholder pensions from 2005; before then, they are for occupational pension schemes and group personal pensions only 3. In 2011 (indicated by the second dotted line), ASHE replaced the Standard Occupational Classification 2000 (SOC 2000) with the Standard Occupational Classification 2010 (SOC 2010). The change to SOC 2010 has affected the survey weighting. Rounded to the nearest percentage, the proportions in this figure are the same whether the estimates are calculated on the old or new SOC basis 4. For 2012 (indicated by the third dotted line), ASHE respondents provided information in respect of the pay period that included 18 April. The returned data did not reflect the Pensions Act 2007 change to defined contribution contracting out. That is, results showed roughly the same proportion of employees in the contracted out defined contribution category in 2012 as in 2011 5. For 2013 (indicated by the fourth dotted line), the Pensions Act 2007 changes ending contracting out for defined contribution schemes are fully reflected in the data, resulting in a lower proportion of pension members who were contracted out" "Unit","Percentages" "","" "Year","Contracted out","Not contracted out" "1997","87.9","12.1" "1998","88.5","11.5" "1999","84.2","15.8" "2000","81.4","18.6" "2001","80.2","19.8" "2002","79.5","20.5" "2003","78.9","21.1" "2004","78.5","21.5" "2005","70.8","29.2" "2006","69.2","30.8" "2007","68.0","32.0" "2008","66.9","33.1" "2009","66.1","33.9" "2010","65.2","34.8" "2011","63.9","36.1" "2012","61.4","38.6" "2013","53.1","46.9"