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Claimant Count
Numbers Leaving and Joining, and Reasons for Leaving

July 2008

Table 1 Numbers Leaving the Claimant Count (Off-Flows during the Previous Month)
  July 2007 October 2007 January 2008 April 2008 July 2008(1) Yearly Change
No. No. No. No. No. % No. %
                 
Burnley 405 444 297 374 354 26.0 -51 -12.6
Chorley 283 343 199 294 291 26.8 8 2.8
Fylde 146 149 101 117 146 35.9 0 0.0
Hyndburn 303 324 202 324 325 30.1 22 7.3
Lancaster 457 559 305 433 450 31.3 -7 -1.5
Pendle 377 409 237 289 324 29.3 -53 -14.1
Preston 497 602 357 488 547 25.5 50 10.1
Ribble Valley 67 84 59 66 84 32.6 17 25.4
Rossendale 192 251 147 195 213 28.9 21 10.9
South Ribble 264 284 171 252 270 31.5 6 2.3
West Lancashire 392 521 211 370 422 27.2 30 7.7
Wyre 226 305 173 254 258 34.3 32 14.2
                 
Lancashire County 3,609 4,275 2,459 3,456 3,684 28.8 75 2.1
                 
Blackburn with Darwen 699 734 473 569 729 30.5 30 4.3
Blackpool 693 779 491 835 754 27.8 61 8.8
                 
East Lancashire 2,043 2,246 1,415 1,817 2,029 29.2 -14 -0.7
Lancashire West 2,958 3,542 2,008 3,043 3,138 28.6 180 6.1
                 
Lancashire NUTS-2 5,001 5,788 3,423 4,860 5,167 28.9 166 3.3
                 
North West 26,104 29,223 18,423 25,785 26,970 24.3 866 3.3
Great Britain 199,562 213,064 139,245 189,028 197,018 24.3 -2,544 -1.3
United Kingdom 204,444 218,926 142,100 193,747 201,695 24.1 -2,749 -1.3
Note (1) Off-flows between June 2008 and July 2008 as a percentage of the Total Claimant Count for June 2008. This is a revised formula as from the October 2005 data, which more accurately reflects the off-flow percentage.

Table 2 Numbers Joining the Claimant Count (On-Flows during the Previous Month)
  July 2007 October 2007 January 2008 April 2008 July 2008(1) Yearly Change
No. No. No. No. No. % No. %
                 
Burnley 513 429 396 445 494 36.2 -19 -3.7
Chorley 275 264 320 284 348 32.0 73 26.5
Fylde 163 159 154 127 143 35.1 -20 -12.3
Hyndburn 325 291 366 286 387 35.8 62 19.1
Lancaster 444 486 382 381 624 43.4 180 40.5
Pendle 378 364 334 363 446 40.4 68 18.0
Preston 551 497 468 519 619 28.9 68 12.3
Ribble Valley 81 82 81 87 137 53.1 56 69.1
Rossendale 203 196 229 219 322 43.7 119 58.6
South Ribble 290 257 268 242 321 37.4 31 10.7
West Lancashire 440 402 353 360 466 30.0 26 5.9
Wyre 259 234 225 241 305 40.6 46 17.8
                 
Lancashire County 3,922 3,661 3,576 3,554 4,612 36.1 690 17.6
                 
Blackburn with Darwen 695 696 637 659 823 34.4 128 18.4
Blackpool 633 669 710 666 757 27.9 124 19.6
                 
East Lancashire 2,195 2,058 2,043 2,059 2,609 37.6 414 18.9
Lancashire West 3,055 2,968 2,880 2,820 3,583 32.7 528 17.3
                 
Lancashire NUTS-2 5,250 5,026 4,923 4,879 6,192 34.6 942 17.9
                 
North West 27,725 25,798 24,929 25,805 32,762 29.6 5,037 18.2
Great Britain 199,344 188,573 179,563 183,017 233,911 28.9 34,567 17.3
United Kingdom 204,861 193,583 183,873 188,035 240,701 28.8 35,840 17.5
Note (1) Off-flows between June 2008 and July 2008 as a percentage of the Total Claimant Count for June 2008. This is a revised formula as from the October 2005 data, which more accurately reflects the off-flow percentage.

Table 3 Reasons for Leaving the Unemployment Claimant Count, Lancashire NUTS-2, July 2008
Reason Males Females Total Persons
No. %(1) No. %(1) No. %(1)
             
Found work 1,265 60.0 495 53.4 1,760 58.0
Increased work to 16+ hours/week 20 0.9 10 1.1 30 0.9
Gone abroad 135 6.5 115 12.3 250 8.3
Claimed Income Support 35 1.8 55 5.8 90 3.0
Claimed Sickness Benefit — — — — — —
Claimed Incapacity Benefit 155 7.4 70 7.7 225 7.5
Claimed another benefit 65 3.1 40 4.2 105 3.4
Gone to full-time education 20 0.9 15 1.4 30 1.0
Gone onto approved training 0 0.1 0 0.2 5 0.1
Transferred to Government-supported training 285 13.5 80 8.8 365 12.0
Retirement age reached 5 0.3 0 0.1 10 0.3
Automatic credits payable 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Claimed back-to-work bonus 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Gone to prison 40 1.9 0 0.0 40 1.4
Attending court 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
New claim review 10 0.4 10 1.1 20 0.6
Defective claim 15 0.7 5 0.5 20 0.7
Ceased claiming 55 2.7 30 3.4 85 2.9
Deceased 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
Not known 205 — 110 — 310 —
Failed to sign 1,400 — 420 — 1,820 —
             
Column Total 3,715 100.0 1,455 100.0 5,165 100.0
Source Office for National Statistics/National On-Line Management Information System (NOMIS)
Notes Data rounded to nearest 5 (disclosure control)
— These figures are missing.
(1) The percentages exclude people who 'Failed to sign' and those whose reason for leaving the Claimant Count was 'Not known'.