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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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| Unemployment is down again, with the number of jobless reaching a 15-month low. | |
| 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 fell by 50,000 in the quarter to August to 2.53 million, an unemployment rate of 7.9%. This is the lowest rate since March to June 2011, but still considerably higher than the lows of 4.7% seen in late 2004 and early 2005. | |
| Public sector employment | Public sector employment |
| The most recent quarterly update for public sector employment makes for more sombre reading. Public sector jobs are at 5.6m, which is a drop of 394,000 - or 6.5% - on the same period last year and 235,000 on the previous quarter. | |
| 19.2% of the UK workforce is in the public sector, the lowest figures since this data series began in 1999. | |
| Youth unemployment | Youth unemployment |
| Unemployment among the under-25s has dropped below 1m for the first time since June 2011 - falling by 62,000 from the March to May figure. The jobless rate among 16 to 24-year-olds is now 20.5%, down from 21.8%. | |
| Click on the image above to explore youth unemployment around the UK. | |
Video | Video |
| The ONS has this great video explaining their labour statistics: | |
| Benefit claimants | Benefit claimants |
| The Office for National Statistics says the number claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last month was 1.55 million, down by 17,000 on August. | |
| 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 11.4% with Hodge Hill following closely behind once more at 10.1%. Some of the other key numbers from this analysis are: | |
/>• Highest % of women: Birmingham Ladywood, 7.3% • Biggest %-point increase over the year: />• Biggest % change on month: />• Biggest %-point decrease over the year: Hackney | • Highest % of men claiming benefits: Birmingham Ladywood, 15.3% />• Highest % of women: Birmingham Ladywood, 7.3% • Biggest %-point increase over the year: Rhondda, 1.1%points />• Biggest % change on month: Dwyfor Meirionnydd, up 11.5% />• Biggest %-point decrease over the year: Hackney South and Shoreditch, 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. | 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. |
| Can you do anything with this data? | Can you do anything with this data? |
| Data summary | Data summary |
| Benefit claimants by constituency for August 2012 | Benefit claimants by constituency for August 2012 |
| Click heading to sort table. Download this data | Click heading to sort table. Download this data |
| Source: Nomis | Source: Nomis |
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