Jobseeker's Allowance

This bulletin shows the latest key labour market statistics for the regions and countries of Great Britain along with statistics for local authorities, travel-to-work areas and parliamentary constituencies.

The table contains the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (Claimant Count) resident in regions and Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in Great Britain for May 2013. Timeseries for these estimates can be found at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

The table contains the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (Claimant Count) resident in regions, counties, local and unitary authorities in Great Britain for May 2013. Timeseries for these estimates can be found at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

These tables contain summary Labour Market indicators for the Countries and Regions of the UK. These cover economic activity, employment, unemployment, economic inactivity, workforce jobs and Claimant Count by sex. Further regional estimates are available in tables HI00 to HI11 of this release.

This video summarises the key messages in the latest labour market release.

Excel spreadsheets containing estimates of labour market statistics are available here. These spreadsheets contain historic estimates going back as far as comparable data exists for each time series.

Comparing February - April 2013, with the previous three months, there was a rise in the number of employed people, a rise in the number of people “not in the labour force”, or economically inactive, and a small fall in the number of people who were unemployed

Claimant Count by age and duration. The Claimant Count measures the number of people claiming benefits principally for the reason of being unemployed. Since October 1996 it has been a count of the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance.

This dataset contains estimates for the claimant count (which measures the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance) and vacancies.

This dataset contains the main labour market statistics data series. All of the series in this dataset are available in spreadsheet format from the labour market data tables. In this dataset Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates are shown for the mid-month of the three-month average time periods. For example, estimates for January to March 2012 are shown as "February 2012", estimates for February to April 2012 are shown as "March 2012", etc.

This video summarises the key messages in the latest labour market release.

The latest average weekly earnings figures

Comparing January – March 2013, with the previous three months, there was a fall in the number of employed people, a rise in the number of people “not in the labour force”, or economically inactive, and a rise in the number of people who were unemployed

Claimant count by age and duration.

Claimant count summary. This table provides estimates of the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits

This dataset contains the main labour market statistics data series. All of the series in this dataset are available in spreadsheet format from the labour market data tables. In this dataset Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates are shown for the mid-month of the three-month average time periods. For example, estimates for January to March 2012 are shown as "February 2012", estimates for February to April 2012 are shown as "March 2012", etc.

These tables contain summary Labour Market indicators for the Countries and Regions of the UK. These cover economic activity, employment, unemployment, economic inactivity, workforce jobs and Claimant Count by sex. Further regional estimates are available in tables HI00 to HI11 of this release.

These tables contain sampling variability and revisions analyses for Labour Market indicators for the Countries and Regions of the UK. These cover employment, unemployment, economic inactivity

The table contains the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (Claimant Count) resident in regions and Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in Great Britain for April 2013. Timeseries for these estimates can be found at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk

These tables contain workplaced based denominators used for calculating Claimant Count rates for regions and countries of the UK.

This bulletin contains the latest estimates of labour market statistics (including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity) for the United Kingdom.

Excel spreadsheets containing estimates of labour market statistics are available here. These spreadsheets contain historic estimates going back as far as comparable data exists for each time series.

Labour market statistics summary data tables. This document contains the tables which appear in the pdf version of the Labour Market Statistical Bulletin.

Claimant count by age and duration.

Lone parent claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA). These statistics are not designated as National Statistics.