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| Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency | Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency |
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| The number of unemployed in the UK rose by 70,000 in the three months to February with the total number of unemployed now reaching 2.56m. | |
| The latest release from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also shows that total pay rose by just 0.8% (the lowest growth rate since September to November 2009) and regular pay rose by 1% compared with December 2011 to February 2012. Phillip Inman writes today: | |
The number of people | The number of people unemployed reached 2.56 million, with 20,000 under 25-year-olds adding their name to the register, pushing the unemployment rate up from 7.8% to 7.9%. |
| The worrying figures, which reflect a reverse in the trend last year for unemployment to fall, come after the International Monetary Fund urged the chancellor to ease his austerity plans and adopt more aggressive measures to spur growth. | |
| So how is it changing? Scroll down the page to see full details on youth unemployment, claimant count where you live and public sector jobs. | So how is it changing? Scroll down the page to see full details on youth unemployment, claimant count where you live and public sector jobs. |
| Total unemployment | Total unemployment |
| The jobless total stood at 2.56m for December 2012 to February 2013, up 70,000 from September to November 2012. The UK unemployment rate was 7.9%, up 0.2 percentage points from September to November 2012. Although the unemployment rate has remained fairly steady, it is still considerably higher than the lows of 4.7% seen in late 2004 and early 2005. | |
| Public sector employment | Public sector employment |
| Public sector jobs are at 5.72m according to the latest release. 19.2% of the UK workforce is in the public sector. The number of people employed in the public sector fell by 313,000 and the number of people employed in the private sector increased by 904,000 between December 2011 and December 2012. The ONS state that 'these large annual movements reflect the reclassification of some educational bodies from the public sector to the private sector.' | Public sector jobs are at 5.72m according to the latest release. 19.2% of the UK workforce is in the public sector. The number of people employed in the public sector fell by 313,000 and the number of people employed in the private sector increased by 904,000 between December 2011 and December 2012. The ONS state that 'these large annual movements reflect the reclassification of some educational bodies from the public sector to the private sector.' |
| Youth unemployment | Youth unemployment |
/> Search for your area or click on a local authority on the map above to see the figures for each area. | Unemployment among the under-25s has stayed below 1m but today's release shows the figure to be up 20,000 from September to November 2012. The jobless rate among 16 to 24-year-olds was 21.2%, 0.6 percentage points from September to November 2012 /> Search for your area or click on a local authority on the map above to see the figures for each area. |
Video | Video |
| The ONS has this great video explaining their labour statistics: | The ONS has this great video explaining their labour statistics: |
| Benefit claimants | Benefit claimants |
| The ONS says the number claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last month was 1.53m, down 7,000 from February 2013 and down 77,500 from a year earlier. | |
| Our figures, not seasonally adjusted, from NOMIS, show benefit claimants in each UK parliamentary constituency. | Our figures, not seasonally adjusted, from NOMIS, show benefit claimants in each UK parliamentary constituency. |
| We've gone for claimants rather than unemployed numbers because – although the numbers are lower – they are bang up to date and available at a really local level, so you can see exactly what's happening near where you live. | We've gone for claimants rather than unemployed numbers because – although the numbers are lower – they are bang up to date and available at a really local level, so you can see exactly what's happening near where you live. |
| Constituency breakdown | Constituency breakdown |
| Birmingham, Ladywood remains the constituency with the highest claimant rate at 11.1% with Birmingham, Hodge Hill following closely behind at 9.6%. Some of the other key numbers from this analysis are: | |
/>• Highest % of women: Birmingham Ladywood, />• Biggest %-point increase over the year: Belfast • Biggest % change on month: />• Biggest %-point decrease over the year: Knowsley, down | • Highest % of men claiming benefits: Birmingham, Ladywood, 15% />• Highest % of women: Birmingham Ladywood, 7.1% />• Biggest %-point increase over the year: Belfast North, 0.7%points • Biggest % change on month: Central Devon, up 7.3% />• Biggest %-point decrease over the year: Knowsley, down 0.9% point |
| Download the full data and in the second tab you can see our rankings by constituency - with highest rates by men and women and a host of other bits of analysis. | Download the full data and in the second tab you can see our rankings by constituency - with highest rates by men and women and a host of other bits of analysis. |
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| Data summary | Data summary |
| Benefit claimants by constituency for March 2013 | |
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