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| Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency | |
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| Unemployment is down again - driven by a boost from the Olympic games and a rise in part-time working. | |
| 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 | |
| The jobless total fell by 7,000 in the quarter to July to 2.59 million, an unemployment rate of 8.1%. | |
| Public sector employment | |
| The latest quarterly update for public sector employment is out this month too - and it makes grim reading. Public sector jobs are down to 5.6m, which is a drop of 394,000 on last year and 235,000 on the previous quarter. That's a drop of 6.5%. | |
| In the UK today, 19.2% of the workforce is in the public sector, the lowest figures since this data series began in 1999. | |
| Youth unemployment | |
| Unemployment among the under-25s is still over 1m - and slightly up on last month by 5,000. | |
| The UK levels of youth unemployment seem to be following an increasing trend throughout the rest of Europe where starting out in the work force has been tough for some time. The full data comparing youth unemployment can be found for this on our Eurozone debt crisis article. | The UK levels of youth unemployment seem to be following an increasing trend throughout the rest of Europe where starting out in the work force has been tough for some time. The full data comparing youth unemployment can be found for this on our Eurozone debt crisis article. |
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| The ONS have this great video explaining their labour statistics: | |
| Benefit claimants | |
| The Office for National Statistics says the number claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last month was 1.57 million, down by 15,000 on July – the largest monthly fall since June 2010. | |
| 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 | |
| Birmingham Ladywood remains the constituency with the highest claimant rate at 11.4% with Hodge Hill following closely behind once more at 10%. Some of the other key numbers from this analysis are: | |
| • Highest % of men claiming benefits: Birmingham Ladywood, 15.5% />• Highest % of women: Birmingham Ladywood, 7.3% />• Biggest %-point increase over the year: Bradford West, 1.2%points />• Biggest % change on month: Epsom and Ewell, up 5.3% />• Biggest %-point decrease over the year: Hackney North and Stoke Newington, down 1%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. | |
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| Data summary | Data summary |
| Benefit claimants by constituency for August 2012 | |
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