Out-of-work benefit claimants by Welsh economic region, variable and statistical group

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Measure1

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Statistical Group Statistical Group typology is to present each person by the main reasons why they are claiming benefit. Each client is classified just once.

Statistical Group typology is to present each person by the main reasons why they are claiming benefit. Each client is classified just once.

Statistical Group 1

Area

Welsh economic regions, local authorities, Wales and UK

Area 1

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Level

Rate

The number of people claiming benefits as a percentage of the population aged 16-64.

Total $The total number of people assigned to the Jobseeker\'s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Incapacity Benefit, Lone Parent and Other statistical groups.$

Total $The total number of people assigned to the Jobseeker\'s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Incapacity Benefit, Lone Parent and Other statistical groups.$

Jobseeker's Allowance $The number of people assigned to the Jobseeker\'s Allowance statistical group.$

ESA and Incapacity Benefit The number of people assigned to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Incapacity Benefit statistical group and include those claiming Severe Disablement Allowance.

The number of people assigned to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Incapacity Benefit statistical group and include those claiming Severe Disablement Allowance.

Lone Parent The number of people assigned to the Lone Parent statistical group which are those claiming Income Support with a child under 16 and no partner.

The number of people assigned to the Lone Parent statistical group which are those claiming Income Support with a child under 16 and no partner.

Other

Jobseeker's Allowance $The number of people assigned to the Jobseeker\'s Allowance statistical group.$

Lone Parent The number of people assigned to the Lone Parent statistical group which are those claiming Income Support with a child under 16 and no partner.

Other

Great Britain

984,370

4,908,338

814,910

154,390

6,862,008

2.4

12.2

2.0

0.4

17.1

Wales

57,905

323,818

46,655

8,928

437,315

3.0

16.9

2.4

0.4

22.8

Wales

North Wales

Isle of Anglesey

1,690

5,818

898

250

8,655

4.1

14.2

2.2

0.6

21.2

Gwynedd

1,983

8,955

1,283

340

12,575

2.7

12.0

1.7

0.4

16.9

Conwy

1,830

10,915

1,455

318

14,515

2.8

16.5

2.2

0.5

21.9

Denbighshire

1,460

10,158

1,465

305

13,390

2.6

18.3

2.6

0.6

24.1

Flintshire

1,658

11,438

1,833

278

15,218

1.7

12.1

2.0

0.3

16.1

Wrexham

1,948

12,523

2,128

355

16,950

2.3

14.8

2.5

0.4

20.1

Mid Wales

Powys

1,095

9,830

1,048

313

12,283

1.5

12.8

1.4

0.4

16.0

Ceredigion

748

5,968

578

195

7,500

1.6

12.9

1.2

0.4

16.1

South West Wales

Pembrokeshire

2,453

10,750

1,640

353

15,190

3.4

15.0

2.2

0.5

21.2

Carmarthenshire

3,088

19,560

2,125

525

25,300

2.8

17.8

2.0

0.4

23.0

Swansea

4,510

27,845

3,668

645

36,655

2.9

18.1

2.4

0.4

23.8

Neath Port Talbot

2,610

20,880

2,580

478

26,548

3.0

23.8

2.9

0.6

30.2

South East Wales

Bridgend

2,605

16,738

2,393

438

22,185

2.9

18.9

2.7

0.5

25.1

The Vale of Glamorgan

2,130

10,760

1,730

338

14,948

2.7

13.7

2.2

0.4

19.2

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff

5,510

32,643

4,790

878

43,823

3.7

21.9

3.2

0.6

29.4

Merthyr Tydfil

1,420

8,683

1,268

210

11,590

3.8

23.1

3.4

0.6

30.9

Caerphilly

4,433

22,250

2,863

598

30,143

3.9

19.7

2.6

0.5

26.7

Blaenau Gwent

2,270

10,490

1,375

283

14,420

5.2

23.9

3.2

0.6

32.9

Torfaen

1,428

11,103

1,540

318

14,388

2.5

19.5

2.7

0.6

25.3

Monmouthshire

988

6,500

688

173

8,348

1.8

11.8

1.2

0.3

15.2

Newport

3,960

15,708

2,905

485

23,058

4.3

17.0

3.1

0.5

25.0

Cardiff

8,120

34,288

6,380

878

49,655

3.3

14.1

2.6

0.4

20.5

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Title

Benefit claimants by Welsh economic region and statistical group

Last update

19 May 2017

Next update

No longer updated

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Jobcentre Plus Administrative System, Department for Work and Pensions

Contact email

economic.stats@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This dataset provides a quarterly snapshot of benefit claimants at particular points in time and are based on 100% of claimants so is not subject to any sampling error. Data are for the number of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming one or more key DWP benefits and the combination of benefits they are claiming.
The aim of the Statistical Group typology is to present each person by the main reasons why they are claiming benefit. Each client is classified just once.
Benefits are arranged hierarchically and claimants are assigned to the top most benefit which they receive. Thus a person who is a lone parent and receives Incapacity Benefit would be classified as incapacity benefits.
For this reason the group lone parent, for example, will not contain all lone parents claiming Income Support. Some will be included in the incapacity benefits group instead.
Data are not seasonally adjusted so any comparisons should be made year on year.

Data collection and calculation

Data are for the number of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming one or more key DWP benefits and the combination of benefits they are claiming.

The aim of the Statistical Group typology is to present each person by the main reasons why they are claiming benefit. Each client is classified just once. Benefits are arranged hierarchically and claimants are assigned to the top most benefit which they receive. Thus a person who is a lone parent and receives Incapacity Benefit would be classified as incapacity benefits.
For this reason the group lone parent, for example, will not contain all lone parents claiming Income Support. Some will be included in the incapacity benefits group instead.
Data are not seasonally adjusted so any comparisons should be made year on year.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Data reference periods

1999 to 2016

Rounding applied

Data are rounded to the nearest 10.

Revisions information

From August 2017, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are no longer publishing working age benefits claimants by client group. The full DWP statement is available at https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/1048.aspx. We are in the process of identifying a new appropriate source for this data.

Statistical quality

Difficulties exist in the ability of the WPLS data to identify flows claims of short duration. These short duration cases affect the numbers starting a new claim (on-flow) or ending a benefit claim (off-flow) with reference to a certain time period. Flows are currently reported for Bereavement Benefit/Widows Benefit (6 weekly scan), Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disability Allowance (6 weekly scan), Income Support (weekly scan), Pension Credit (weekly scan), State Pension (6 weekly scan) and Employment and Support Allowance (2 weekly scan). Claims which both start and end between two consecutive extract dates will not be detected. Previously for the 5% sample data, because there is a 3 month gap between extracts, some claims with a duration from one day up to almost 3 months were missed and so the use of WPLS data offers much improvement in this respect.

Keywords

Benefits

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