The new experimental Claimant Count includes Jobseeker’s Allowance Claimants and those out-of-work Universal Credit claimants who were claiming principally for the reason of being unemployed.
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 15th October 2019
NI claimant count (experimental) increased over the year
NI claimant count (experimental) in September 2019 was 29,700, 3.2% of the workforce
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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