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answer text: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people living in (a) Leeds and (b) Yorkshire were unemployed in each of the last 12 months. (226394)""The Office for National Statistics compiles unemployment statistics for local areas such as Leeds using model based estimates and for regions such as Yorkshire and The Humber using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions.""The model based estimates for Leeds are available only for rolling four quarter periods. The latest available estimates cover the twelve months ending September 2007 and December 2007 and are provided in Table 1. The estimates for Yorkshire and The Humber from the LFS are available for rolling three monthly periods and the latest available estimates are provided in Table 2.""Table 3 gives the number of persons claiming Jobseeker's Allowance resident in Leeds and Yorkshire and The Humber for each of the last twelve months.""These figures along with a wide range of other labour market data for parliamentary constituencies and local authorities are also published on the Office for National Statistics' Nomis® website:""www.nomisweb.co.uk" Table 1: Number of persons unemployed¹ resident in Leeds 12 months ending Leeds (Thousand) September 2007 23 23 December 2007² *** 23 ¹ Levels of unemployment are provided for persons aged 16 and over. The figures presented are weighted to population estimates published in 2007. ² Coefficients of variation have been calculated for the latest period as an indication of the quality of the estimates. See guide to quality as follows. Guide to quality: The coefficient of variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie …
answer given date: 2008-10-13+01:00
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