UNEMPLOYMENT MEASUREMENT (Hansard, 28 November 1994)

§ Lord Inglewood

In October 1982, when registration at jobcentres became voluntary and could therefore no longer provide a meaningful measure of unemployment, the monthly unemployment statistics changed from a count of jobcentre registrants to a count of claimants at Employment Service local offices. Both counts, in common with all statistics based on administrative systems, have inevitably been subject to changes in coverage whenever there have been changes to the administrative procedures on which they are based. However, these changes have been taken into account in the consistent, seasonally adjusted series published by the Employment Department.

A list of the changes since 1979 affecting the coverage of both the former registrant series and the claimant count, together with an estimate of the numerical effect, was published in an article in the December 1990 issue of Employment Gazette. Since the article was written, there has been one additional discontinuity, details of which are given on page S16 of the April 1994 Employment Gazette and in the booklet, How Exactly is Unemployment Measured? Copies of all these documents are in the Library. The latter booklet also covers the internationally standard ILO measure of unemployment also published by the Department and obtained from the Labour Force Survey.

	24 Hour AADT Forecast Flows
	1990	2000	2005	2010
		LG	HG	LG	HG	LG	HG
A27 Preferred Route
Southerham-Beddingham	—	32,100	36,000	34,900	40,600	37,600	45,200
Beddingham-Polegate Bypass	—	22,000	24,700	23,900	27,800	25,800	31,000
Existing A27 near Selmeston	—	4,500	5,000	4,900	5,700	5,200	6,300
Existing A27 near Wilmington	—	4,100	4,600	4,400	5,200	4,800	5,800
Do Minimum
Existing A27 Ranscombe Hill	21,250	31,600	35,300	34,300	39,900	37,000	44,500
Existing A27 near Selmeston	15,100	22,450	25,100	24,400	28,350	26,250	31,600
Existing A27 near Wilmington	15,100	22,450	25,100	24,400	28,350	26,250	31,600
Table of 24 Hour AADT Forecast Flows