DDS Entity Definition: N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT

Name:
Percentage Unemployed by Category of the Insured (Adjusted)
Identifier:
N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT
Type:
nCube (N)
Additive:
No
Text:
The Ministry of Labour's inter-war Local Unemployment Index mainly reported rates of unemployment, as percentages, and these are presented here. The reports do list the total number of persons insured, enabling the actual number of the unemployed to be calculated, but they do not break down the number of insured people by sex and age, so these rates are the only information we have. Note that between 1927 and 1936 the LUI was known to be imprecise because the count of the unemployed included (a) workers insured under the Agricultural Scheme, (b) workers aged between 14 and 16 and (c) workers aged 65 and over, while the count of insured workers used as a divisor in calculating the unemployment rate did not. In January 1937 a 'New Series' of the LUI was begun in which the number recorded as unemployed excluded the above categories. All reports included figures for change in the total percentage unemployed over the preceding twelve months, and those given in the 1937 reports are based on an adjusted figure for the previous year; it is therefore possible for 1936 to compare the rates originally published with corrected rates for the same places and dates. The figures held here have been adjusted by a procedure developed by David Gilbert, now of Royal Holloway, University of London:.

nCube "N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT" is contained within:


Themes:

Entity IDEntity Name
T_WK Work & Poverty

Universes:

Entity IDEntity Name
U_INSURED_UNEM All persons covered by unemployment insurance


nCube "N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT" contains:


Variables :

Entity IDEntity Name
V_NAT_INS_AGESEX Categories of Persons within National Insurance


Data Map listing for nCube N_ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT:


The DDS data map lists the "cell references" that are held in our main data table, each with its category values on each dimension (variable) of the nCube.

Cell Reference Dim Category Value
ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT:men 1 Men
ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT:women 1 Women
ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT:juveniles 1 Juveniles
ADJ_LUI_UNEM_PERCENT:total 1 Total for all insured