Employment

This is seen as a separate deprivation from the income deprivation to which lack of employment may lead. Nonoverlapping counts of those excluded from the labour market through unemployment, ill health or disability.

S ummary of indicators:

Unemployment claimant counts (JUVOS, ONS) average of May 1998, August 1998, November 1998 and February 1999

People out of work but in TEC delivered government supported training (DfEE)

People aged 18-24 on New Deal options (ES)

Incapacity Benefit recipients aged 16-59 (DSS) for 1998

Severe Disablement Allowance claimants aged 16-59 (DSS) for 1999