The percentage of the economically active population who are claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA). Output from the GLA claimant count model which uses administrative counts of Job Seekers and expresses them as a percentage of the labour force using GLA projections of the economically active population. Designed to complement ONS claimant count rates which use the whole population as the denominator. From October 2015, the series inclu...

Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) replaced Unemployment Benefit and Income Support for unemployed people on 7th October 1996. It is payable to people under state pension age who are available for and actively seeking work. Participants in some government training schemes are able to claim JSA. In addition to signing an agreement with Job Centre Plus stipulating work restrictions and a programme for finding work a person must: be living in Gre...

The report uses Annual Population Survey Data to examine mini-jobs in London and profile the key characteristics of those who work in such jobs. The report is available to download by clicking on the thumbnail below. The data contained within the report is available to download here

Two years after the UK recession ended in the final quarter of 2009, came a decrease in GDP in the final quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, signifying an official “double dip” recession. This Update looks at key labour market indicators since the beginning of the recession period in 2008. It presents the latest national and London figures of those claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance (JSA), known as the claimant count, and also s...

This analysis uses longitudinal data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to show the movement, or flow, between employment, unemployment and inactivity from one quarter to the next. These flows show the underlying movements which sit behind published headline labour market rates which, in contrast, take a snapshot of the Labour Market at a point in time. Flows are also used to calculate the probability that an individual will change...