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Jobcentre Plus: Chelmsford

Answer

[holding answer 14 September 2009]: The information requested is in the following table.

Notified and live unfilled vacancies in West Chelmsford in the last six months
Date	West Chelmsford parliamentary constituency	Chelmsford local authority	Chelmsford Jobcentre Plus
Live unfilled vacancies
February 2009	629	707	768
March 2009	442	531	649
April 2009	484	540	629
May 2009	565	640	667
June 2009	655	715	757
July 2009	711	816	861
Notified vacancies
February 2009	1,019	1,132	1,208
March 2009	548	643	740
April 2009	652	724	772
May 2009	738	854	891
June 2009	762	868	951
July 2009	735	903	967
Notes:
1. Data are unrounded and will include overlaps between the areas provided for this answer.
2. Changes to Jobcentre Plus vacancy handling procedures have led to a major discontinuity in the vacancy statistics pre and post May 2006. Consequently, care should be taken in interpreting time-series data.
3. These are not whole economy figures. Coverage relates just to vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus and as such represent a market share of vacancies throughout the whole economy. This proportion varies overtime, according to the occupation of the vacancy and industry of the employer, and by local area. Comprehensive estimates of all job vacancies (not just those notified to Jobcentre Plus) are available from the monthly ONS Vacancy Survey since April 2001, based on a sample of some 6,000 enterprises. However, the ONS survey is currently designed to provide national estimates only.
4. Notified vacancies. Monthly data on the inflow of newly notified vacancies to Jobcentre Plus.
5. The stocks of live unfilled vacancies reflect more accurately job opportunities available via Jobcentre Plus. In the case of unfilled vacancies, use of the figures on live vacancies is recommended (i.e. excluding suspended vacancies), and this is the default option. Live vacancies may still include some vacancies which have already been filled or are otherwise no longer open.
6. To provide a geographic breakdown, in most cases the postcode of the vacancy is used to allocate the vacancy to a local area. Where this is missing or invalid, the employers' postcode or the postcode of the local Jobcentre Plus office is used.
7. These figures are published at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk
Source:
Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

290994; 496 c2290-1W

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Vacancies Chelmsford

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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