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Originally Posted by claytonender
The figures people claiming Job seekers Allowance in Hyndburn (as of January 2009) are 1753 claiments, at the same time last year the figures were 1110. Personally I think seeing the actual figures rather rhan percentages makes more sense, becuse just seeing 71% would not tell you what it was a percentage of.
There is 3.6% of the working population of Hyndburn a
claiming Job seekers Allowance (the figure for Jan 2008 was 2.2%).
There is a report to HBC Cabinet, which is being hel next Wednesday 4 March. This is a link tot he breakdown of the figures- which shows the numbers in each ward of the borough. Unfortunately the 5 most deprived wards -Church, Spring Hill, Central, Peel, Barnfield have the highest percent unemployed, and Baxenden (which is the least deprived ward) the lowest.
This is a link to the report
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...arch_09_1_.pdf |
I think that you may just think about percentages the way that I do claytonender, they can be very misleading, I once remember somebody stating that their organisations membership had taken off over 12 month period, membership had increased by150% there used to be two of them now there are 5
