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Unemployment: Tamworth

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:"The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) people and (b) young people were unemployed in Tamworth constituency in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009. I am replying in his absence. (311774)""The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey and its predecessor the annual Labour Force Survey (LFS) following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions. However, estimates of unemployment for the requested age bands and geographies are not available.""As an alternative, in Table 1 we have provided the number of (a) persons and (b) people aged 18-24, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, in Tamworth constituency in November 2009, the latest date for which data is available, and November 1997.""National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:""http://www.nomisweb.co.uk"

Table 1: Number¹ of people and people aged 18-24 claiming jobseeker's allowance in Tamworth constituency
Date	People	People aged 18-24
November 1997	1,490	435
November 2009	2,630	815
¹ Age of claimants is only available for computerised claims, which account for 99.7 per cent. of all claims.
Note:
All figures are rounded to the nearest 5
Source:
Jobcentre Plus administrative system

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

504 c243-4W; 311774

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Unemployment Tamworth

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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