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Labour force survey

A quarterly survey of the UK labour market completed in accordance with internationally agreed standards. It is a wider measure of unemployment than the count of the number of people receiving Job Seekers Allowance and provides far more detailed view of employment in the UK in a format that facilitates accurate international comparisons.

Below is the LFS measure of the UK unemployment rate from 1971-2014.

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