Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
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Unemployment by Constituency, August 2016 (12 MB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Data for all constituencies (142 KB, Excel Spreadsheet) (142 KB, Excel Spreadsheet)
- The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance or claiming Universal Credit and required to seek work was 763,600 in July 2016, down 8,600 from June.
- The unemployment rate was 4.9% in April-June 2016. The ILO measure of unemployment was 1.64 million people, 52,000 fewer than the previous quarter and 207,000 fewer than the year before.
- The number of people in employment was 31.75 million in April-June 2016, up 172,000 from the previous quarter and 606,000 more than the year before. The employment rate was 74.5%, the highest since comparable records began in 1971.
- Average weekly total pay in Great Britain increased by 2.4% in the three months to June 2016 compared with the previous year. Regular pay (excluding bonuses) grew by 2.3%. CPI inflation averaged 0.3% over this period.
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Documents to download
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Unemployment by Constituency, August 2016 (12 MB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- Data for all constituencies (142 KB, Excel Spreadsheet) (142 KB, Excel Spreadsheet)
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Business and Consumer Confidence: Information on business and consumer confidence surveys, which is generally released ahead of official statistical data and can indicate changes to the economic outlook as well as turning points in the economic cycle.
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