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 aged 16+.
- 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 (16-64)
- Ward-based claimant proportions are estimated by City Development using the working-age population distribution available from the ONS experimental 2010 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