This table shows working age population that has a disability and Employment, unemployment, economic activity and inactivity rates by disability (includes Equalities Act Core disabled, DDA & work-limiting disabled) The definition of ‘disability’ under the Equality Act 2010 shows a person has a disability if: - they have a physical or mental impairment - the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability ...

Employment Rate by broad ethnic group (Working age), employment rates for BAME and White for each year since 2006, and employment and unemployment rates by age group (16-24, 25-49 and 50-64) and ethnic group for London and rest of UK for latest year. Rates for the latter, exclude full-time students. The data are taken from the Annual Population Survey (APS), produced by the Office for National Statistics.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has jointly developed with Professor Ray Chambers of the University of Southampton, a new modelling methodology to produce modelled estimates of unemployment levels and rates on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition for local authority districts and unitary authorities (LAD/UAs). The unemployed population consists of those people out of work, who are actively looking for work and...

This paper summarises the latest evidence and analysis on the impacts of COVID-19 on London’s economy so far and on the economic outlook so that key actors and stakeholders engaged in responding to the pandemic can have a readily available evidence base to inform policy responses.

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...

Estimates of the number of hours worked per week by those in employment. Data are broken down by banded durations and gender. Data are taken from the Annual Population Survey, produced by the Office for National Statistics.

This package contains data and analysis of the Government's Work Programme and its peformance in London. The Work Programme is the Government's flagship welfare to work programme which launched across Great Britain in June 2011. The data presented here look at the performance of the Work Programme in London and compare this to other parts of Great Britain. The first report looks at referrals and attachments to the Work Programme and c...

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...

Reports and data on the Labour Market and Qualifications

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...