Employment, unemployment and inactivity

Year (Apr-June) All Total economically active (rate %) Total in employment (rate %) Unemployed (rate %) Economically inactive (rate %) 

Source. Table A. 1, Labour Market Trends, Office for National Statistics, November 2006 

Source Time Series Data, Office of National Statistics 

An important difference with the early 1980s is that ILO unemployment now is consistently higher than JSA unemployment. This change reflects in part restrictions in benefit eligibility rules. The trend first emerged in the late 1980s but appears, from Table 34, to have increased again after the introduction of JSA in 1996. The gap with the JSA unemployment rate was just 0.8% in 1993 but increased to over 2% by 1999 and stood at 2.4% in 2006 

---