Claimant Count

Experimental Statistics
Users should note that revisions are to be expected while the Claimant  Count series is experimental and improvements are being made to the process. The experimental Claimant Count series is subject to three types of revisions:
       1) Monthly revisions due to updated information
       2) Monthly revision to seasonally adjusted data
       3) Annual revisions to seasonally adjusted data
More information available here.

Latest results published 21st January 2020

• NI claimant count (experimental) increased over the year
• NI claimant count (experimental) in December 2019 was 29,900, 3.2% of the workforce

Claimant count interactive maps

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• Annual average for parliamentary constituency area
• Annual average for council area
• Monthly data for parliamentary constituency area
• Monthly data for council area

Claimant count tables

• Latest tables for the claimant count

Claimant count background information

• Changes to Claimant Count following the introduction of Universal Credit
• Difference between ILO unemployment (LFS) and the claimant count (JSA only)

UK Claimant count data on NOMIS

UK Claimant Count data is available for comparison via NOMIS. Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources: nomis website

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