Thread by @CentreforCities

🚨 NEW DATA TOOL 🚨

As the #COVID19 pandemic sends shockwaves through the labour market, we're tracking the latest #unemployment claim stats across the UK's cities and largest towns.

Explore the tool to compare the picture across local labour markets 👇
centreforcities.org/data/uk-unempl…

Today's @ONS Claimant Count statistics have been crunched by our resident labour market expert @MagriniElena and added to our new tracker.

📊 Data available on all our cities and large towns from Sept 2019 - Sept 2020.
centreforcities.org/data/uk-unempl…

🔎 Explore:
🔹Claimant Count latest data
🔹Compared to national average & the pre-lockdown average
🔹Youth Claimant Count latest data
🔹Pandemic percentage point change Mar-Sept 2020
🔹Percentage point change in Claimant Counts in the last month

centreforcities.org/data/uk-unempl…

There's also contextual labour market stats including:
🔹 Percentage of population with high-skilled qualifications
🔹 Number of local CVs per job posting (from @PawelAdrjan @IndeedUK)

Later today: @MagriniElena's analysis of the September figures 👀

Now here's @MagriniElena's latest on what the Sept figures mean:

📈 Unemployment is rising but at a slower pace
🛬 London & its neighbouring towns reliant on airports continue to be the hardest hit
📉 Youth claimant count is highest in weaker economies
centreforcities.org/blog/october-u…