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Subject: Aspects of Society

Title : Unemployment

Unemployment statistics

The British Record

According to British government statistics recent trends in unemployment are as follows:

1948 – 1966 UK average below 2% of the workforce
1960s Increasing slowly
1975-78 Uemployment rises above 6%
1979-80 Fell to 4.8%
1982 Doubled to 9.5%
1985/86 Peaked at 11.8%
1987-90 Fell to 5.8% by 1990
1992 Another peak at 10.8%
1993- Falling slowly

However, official statistics must be treated with caution. In Britain sociologists generally agree that nineteen changes in the ways in which official statistics were measured between 1979 and 1987 under the Conservative Thatcher regime mean that the unemployment figures are underestimated. Additionally, people who would like to work but who would not be able to claim benefits do not tend to register. Training schemes reduce the apparent numbers of unemployed. In 1985 official statistics placed the number unemployed at 3.3 million, whereas a TUC estimate placed the number at 4.5 million.
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