Dataset: Alternative Claimant Count - Off Flows
Description
This is the final release of this series. The Alternative Claimant Count statistics have always been presented as an interim series to complement the ONS Claimant Count. Four years after they were first published and now that the majority of unemployed claimants have migrated to Universal Credit, the series now has marginal value as trends have converged to the ONS Claimant Count. The ONS Claimant Count, released monthly, provides a timelier and more frequent series (available at: Nomisweb.co.uk). The historic ACC statistics will continue to be available on GOV.UK.
This dataset provides detailed information about the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits. Under Universal Credit, a broader span of claimants are required to look for work than under Jobseeker's Allowance. To address this, the Alternative Claimant Count statistics measures the number of people claiming unemployment benefits by modelling what the count would have been if Universal Credit had been in place since 2013 with the broader span of people this covers.
Figures are standardised to control for 4 and 5 week counting periods.
Off-flows are defined as the number of people no longer claiming unemployment related benefits in month t, who were claiming in the previous month t-1.
Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this dataset which guards against the identification of an individual claimant.
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