Key Economic Statistics, April 2010

The release includes latest information from a range of sources and covers a variety of time periods. This release updates the statistics previously released on 17 March 2010.

The key points from the latest ONS release are:

The Labour Force Survey estimates for the 3 months to February 2010 show:

• The employment rate of people of working age in Wales was 69.4 per cent, down from 69.8 per cent in the same period a year earlier.  The UK average was 72.1 per cent.
• The ILO unemployment rate in Wales was 9.0 per cent of the economically active, up from 7.6 per cent in the same period a year earlier.  For the UK as a whole it was 8.0 per cent.
• The rate of economic activity amongst people of working age in Wales was 76.7 per cent, up from 75.8 per cent in the same period a year earlier.  The UK average was 78.5 per cent.

The claimant count rate in March 2010 for Wales was 5.3 per cent of the workforce, up 0.1 percentage points on March 2009 (UK rate 4.8 per cent).

The above data can be found on the economic and labour market summary report on the StatsWales website.

Further information

StatsWales website

Office for National Statistics website.

Contact

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

Next update

12 May 2010