The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes unemployment in two ways.
Unemployment and unemployment rates
- The official Annual Population Survey (which replaced the Labour Force Survey) provides estimates of unemployment according to International Labour Organisation-based definitions.
- The unemployment rate relates the numbers unemployed to the number of economically active residents.
- The model-based unemployment rates at local authority level are used instead of the standard data available from the Annual Population Survey. Data is available as a 12-month average. The sample size is too small to produce estimates at the ward level.
Benefit claimants and claimant proportions
- The ONS publishes monthly statistics on the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits.
- The claimant proportion relates the numbers claiming benefits to the resident population of working age.
- Ward-based claimant proportions are estimated by City Development using the working-age population distribution available from the ONS experimental 2009 ward-based statistics. See the ONS population link on this page.
On this page there are links to
- A graph showing claimant proportions for Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and GB.
- A graph showing unemployment rates. There is a time lag in the production of this data.
- The latest statistics in the Leeds Economy Bulletin format
- Excel spreadsheets of claimants by ward and gender, and estimated proportions
In August 2010 ONS changed the Working Age Population (used in the calculation of rates and proportions) to ages 16-64 for both males and females.