Labour Research (April 2003)

Pay and prices

Jobless rate continues to fall

Unemployment has continued to fall. The Labour Force Survey figure, which includes people not on benefits and is the government's preferred measure, fell by 73,000 to 1.46 million in the three months to January.

The claimant count rose slightly by 2,600 to 935,300.


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