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Table 1: County level unemployment
|
Percentage of all in labour market |
Rank of county |
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|
Claimants |
Other |
All ILO |
Total claimants |
Total ILO |
Female ILO |
Male ILO |
|
|
Merseyside |
4.8 |
1.1 |
5.9 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
1 |
|
North Tyne Wear |
4.7 |
1.5 |
6.2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
Durham + Teeside |
4.4 |
1.9 |
6.3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
Inner London |
4.1 |
2.4 |
6.5 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
West Midlands |
4.0 |
1.4 |
5.4 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
|
South Yorkshire |
3.9 |
1.4 |
5.3 |
6 |
6 |
5 |
7 |
|
Cumbria |
3.7 |
1.2 |
4.9 |
7 |
7 |
8 |
5 |
|
Humberside + Lincolnshire |
3.5 |
0.9 |
4.4 |
8 |
8 |
13 |
8 |
|
Nottinghamshire |
3.1 |
1.0 |
4.1 |
9 |
9 |
11 |
9 |
|
Derbyshire |
2.6 |
0.9 |
3.5 |
10 |
11 |
21 |
10 |
|
Devon + Cornwall |
2.3 |
1.3 |
3.6 |
11 |
10 |
15 |
11 |
|
Lancashire |
2.3 |
1.0 |
3.3 |
11 |
12 |
6 |
20 |
|
Outer London |
2.2 |
1.1 |
3.3 |
14 |
13 |
16 |
13 |
|
Cheshire |
2.2 |
0.5 |
2.7 |
13 |
16 |
22 |
15 |
|
Manchester |
2.1 |
1.2 |
3.3 |
15 |
14 |
9 |
14 |
|
West Yorkshire |
2.0 |
0.9 |
2.9 |
16 |
15 |
12 |
16 |
|
Staffordshire + Shropshire |
1.9 |
0.7 |
2.6 |
17 |
19 |
20 |
17 |
|
Kent |
1.8 |
0.9 |
2.7 |
18 |
17 |
17 |
23 |
|
Dorset + Somerset |
1.7 |
0.9 |
2.6 |
19 |
18 |
18 |
22 |
|
Cambridge + Norfolk + Suffolk |
1.5 |
0.7 |
2.2 |
20 |
21 |
27 |
18 |
|
Leicester + |
1.5 |
1.0 |
2.5 |
20 |
20 |
23 |
19 |
|
Hereford + Worcester + Warwick |
1.4 |
0.8 |
2.2 |
22 |
22 |
25 |
21 |
|
Essex |
1.2 |
0.6 |
1.8 |
23 |
24 |
29 |
24 |
|
Hampshire + Isle of Wight |
1.1 |
0.8 |
1.9 |
24 |
23 |
14 |
28 |
|
North Yorkshire |
0.9 |
0.3 |
1.2 |
25 |
26 |
31 |
25 |
|
Gloucester + Wiltshire |
0.8 |
0.4 |
1.2 |
26 |
27 |
30 |
26 |
|
Avon |
0.8 |
1.0 |
1.8 |
26 |
25 |
19 |
27 |
|
Bedfordshire + Hertfordshire |
0.5 |
0.4 |
0.9 |
28 |
30 |
28 |
29 |
|
Berkshire + Buckinghamshire + Oxford |
0.5 |
0.7 |
1.2 |
28 |
28 |
24 |
30 |
|
Surrey |
0.4 |
0.6 |
1.0 |
30 |
29 |
26 |
31 |
|
Mean |
2.4 |
1.1 |
3.5 |
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Pearson corr |
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|
Male all |
0.985 |
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|
Female all |
0.648 |
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Source: Labour Force Survey (author's analysis)