Key Economic Statistics, January 2012

The release includes the latest information from a range of sources and covers a variety of time periods. This release updates the statistics previously released on 14 December 2011.

The key points from the latest ONS release are:

The Labour Force Survey estimates for the 3 months to November 2011 show:

• The employment rate for those aged from 16 - 64 in Wales was 68.2 per cent, up 0.8 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.  The UK average was 70.3 per cent, down 0.2 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.
• The unemployment rate in Wales was 8.9 per cent of the economically active, up 0.5 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.  For the UK as a whole it was 8.4 per cent, up 0.5 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.
• The economic inactivity rate for those aged from 16 - 64 in Wales was 25.1 per cent, down 1.0 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.  The UK average was 23.1 per cent, down 0.2 percentage points from the same period a year earlier.

The claimant count rate in December 2011 for Wales was 5.5 per cent of the workforce, up 0.5 percentage points on December 2010 (UK rate 5.0 per cent, up 0.4 percentage points over the year).

Further information

StatsWales website

Office for National Statistics website: Labour Market Statistics Regional Monthly Data 

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5017
E-mail: economic.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

15 February 2012