Claimant Count

• What is the claimant count?
• Key facts about claimants
• Claimant count data
• Claimant count maps
• Further information

What is the Claimant Count?

The Claimant Count is a count of those people who are claiming unemployment-related benefits such as Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and National Insurance credits. To qualify for JSA people have to be actively seeking work. The data is provided on a monthly basis and is available by:

• age
• duration
• gender

The Claimant Count is useful because:

• it is regularly updated (monthly)
• it is available down to a small geographical level (Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs)

However, because the Claimant Count is benefits based, it does miss out a large proportion of people who are unemployed and seeking work, but do not qualify for JSA.

Key Facts

• At April 2007, 6.8 per cent (or 7,400 people) of Haringey's economically active population (i.e. people in work or actively seeking work, excluding economically active full time students) was claiming JSA; this is down from a claim rate of 7.7 per cent (or 8,205 people) at April 2006.
• Haringey's JSA claim rate of 6.8 per cent is significantly higher the London average of 4.6 per cent and nearly twice the England average of 3.5 per cent.
• Haringey currently has the fourth highest JSA claim rate in London behind Tower Hamlets (8.5 per cent), Hackney (8.0 per cent) and Newham (7.6 per cent).
• The male JSA claim in Haringey, at 8.9 per cent, is the fourth highest in London behind Hackney (10.4 per cent), Newham (9.5 per cent) and Tower Hamlets (10.7 per cent).
• With a rate of 4.4 per cent, female JSA claim rates in Haringey, although lower than male claim rates, are the fourth highest in London behind Hackney (5.1 per cent), Tower Hamlets (5.2 per cent) and Newham (4.9 per cent).
• Young people are more likely to be claiming JSA in Haringey than any other age group - the JSA claim rate for economically active people aged 16 to 24 is 18.0 per cent. This is compared with claim rates of 5.4 per cent and 6.3 per cent for people aged 25 to 44 and 45 to 59 (females) /64 (males) respectively.
• Some 26.7 per cent of people claiming JSA in the borough have been doing so for over a year. This is the second highest proportion in London, joint with Camden and behind Tower Hamlets (29 per cent).
• At 15.8 per cent, Northumberland Park ward has the highest JSA claim rate in London. This is 2.3 percentage points higher than the second highest ranking London ward (East India & Lansbury ward in Tower Hamlets - 14.4 per cent).

Claimant Count Data

To download Claimant Count data for London boroughs and Haringey wards please follow the links below.

Please note that this data has been produced by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and users are strongly advised to read the guidance note in the attached files section below before accessing or using the data.

Claimant Count Maps

To download Claimant Count maps for Haringey wards, LSOAs and Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs) please follow the links below.

Please note that: the claim rates in the LSOA and MSOA maps are calculated using the total working age populations (all males aged 16 to 64 and all females aged 16 to 59) from the Office for National Statistics' mid-year population estimates; the claim rates in the ward maps are calculated using the economically active populations from data supplied by the GLA. More information about how to interpret Claimant Count data can be found in the attached files section below.

Further Information

If you require Claimant Count data prior to August 2006 please contact:

Email: statistics@haringey.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8489 6954

Please note that Claimant Count data prior to February 2004 are based on the old Haringey ward boundaries and are therefore not comparable with Claimant Count data from February 2004 onwards.

Attached Files

Filename	Filetype	Size
using claimant count data.pdf	PDF	253K
what are super output areas	PDF	148K
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Useful External Links

The following links are not part of the Haringey Council website. Please read our legal disclaimer before using these links

• Nomis - Labour Market Statistics
• Department for Work and Pensions - Research, Analysis and Statistics

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