Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 20 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average length of a jobseeker's allowance claim by a person registered as unemployed in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland constituency was in each of the last five years.
The information requested is shown in the following table.
The median duration of Jobseeker's Allowance completed claims in the parliamentary constituency of Copeland and the County of Cumbria, for the last five years. | ||||
Copeland | Cumbria | |||
Number | Median | Number | Median | |
March 2004 - February 2005 (inclusive) | 3,525 | 10.1 | 18,500 | 8.8 |
March 2005 - February 2006 (inclusive) | 2,990 | 10.7 | 16,795 | 9.0 |
March 2006 - February 2007 (inclusive) | 3,010 | 12.2 | 17,205 | 10.1 |
March 2007 - February 2008 (inclusive) | 3,180 | 10.5 | 17,470 | 9.3 |
March 2008 - February 2009 (inclusive) | 3,155 | 9.6 | 17,545 | 7.9 |
Notes: 1. Data are published at www.nomisweb.co.uk 2. Completed claims are rounded to the nearest five 3. Median is measured in number of weeks 4. Median is a better measure of "average" than arithmetic mean for skewed distributions such as duration of claim. Source: |
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