Unemployment bulletins
Hertfordshire County Council produce two sets of unemployment bulletins, monthly and quarterly.
Monthly Unemployment Bulletins contain information on Claimant Count Unemployment (the number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance), the Claimant Count proportion (the percentage of the estimated population of working age resident in the area) and numbers of Job Vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus branches in the Hertfordshire Area.
Claimant Counts and Proportions are shown for Hertfordshire and it's ten District Council areas, with comparison data for the UK, Great Britain, Greater London, the South East and the East of England. Counts and Proportions are also shown for Male and Female Claimants. Comparison is made with Counts from the same month in the previous year for each of the above.
Tables giving Monthly unemployment from the Labour Force Survey provide the official unemployment rate at a National and Regional level.
Quarterly Unemployment Bulletins are more detailed than the Monthly Unemployment Bulletins. Quarterly Bulletins contain information on Claimant Count Unemployment (the number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance); the Claimant Count proportion (the percentage of the estimated population of working age resident in the area) with comparison to other regions, counties and unitary authorities close to Hertfordshire; numbers and age of Long Term Unemployed Claimants; numbers of Job Vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus branches in the Hertfordshire Area (with analysis by Occupation and Industry types); Unemployment rate comparisons for the European Union and Claimant Counts for Parliamentary Constituencies and Towns in Hertfordshire.
Tables giving Monthly unemployment from the Labour Force Survey provide the official unemployment rate at a National and Regional level.
The bulletins are available on hertsdirect.org by selecting the links entitled either Monthly Unemployment Bulletins or Quarterly Unemployment Bulletins (on the right hand side of the screen).
This page last updated: 25-03-2009