Regional Labour Market Statistics, July 2012

via ONS Media Centre

This bulletin shows the latest key labour market statistics for the regions and countries of Great Britain along with statistics for local authorities, travel-to-work areas and parliamentary constituencies.

Key points

• Employment rate highest in the East of England (75.0 per cent) and lowest in the North East (66.5 per cent)
• Unemployment rate highest in the North East (10.9 per cent) and lowest in the South West (5.9 per cent)
• Inactivity rate highest in the North East (25.2 per cent) and lowest in the East of England (19.6 per cent)
• Claimant Count rate highest in the North East (7.7 per cent) and lowest in the South East (3.1 per cent)

Get all the tables for this publication in the data section of this publication (Excel files).

Full text (PDF 13pp)

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Regional statistics

The Eurostat regional yearbook 2011 is now available, giving regional indicators for 16 topics:

• population, 
• labour market, 
• labour cost, 
• education, 
• health, 
• cities, 
• GDP, 
• household accounts, 
• structural business statistics, 
• information society, 
• tourism, 
• land cover and land use, 
• coastal regions, 
• transport, 
• science, and 
• technology and innovation. 

This edition also includes a section on trends in densely and thinly populated areas. The 240-page yearbook covers the EU Member States, plus the EFTA and candidate countries. The content will be updated on the ‘Statistics explained’ website.

More details in Press Release 182/2011

Full report (PDF 240pp)
Hard copy is also available from the EU Bookshop for 20 Euros

Product code: KS-HA-11-001
ISBN: 978-92-79-20366-4
ISSN: 1830-9674
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.2785/1392

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