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WALES SEES HIGHEST INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UK

It has become such a familiar story that even BBC Wales can't be bothered to report on today's unemployment figures showing that Wales continues to perform worse than the rest of the UK.

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Anonymous said…
Last month, it was said there were 130,000 unemployed in Wales.

Now it seems there are 125,000. Surely that's a fall of 5000, not a rise of 14,000.

I don't disagree with your assessment about Wales underperforming, but there appears (on the surface) to be something wrong with these figures.
November 11, 2009 2:59 pm
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans said…
The figures within the release compare each quarter's data and, according to this, there is a fall in unemployment from the last set of figures but take up your arguments over presentation with the ONS, not me!!

p.s. it would seem the BBC has finally caught up with the story and Vaughan Roderick has blistering attack on the civil service spin involved in presenting this data.
November 11, 2009 4:43 pm
Anonymous said…
Unless the time was recorded wrongly on your blog, the comment you posted at 1:35 pm on 11th November must have been false. BBC Radio Wales was reporting on the new unemployment figures, comparing Wales with the rest of the UK, from the 10am news bulletin onwards on 11th November (it was the top news story), and carried on being reported in every news bulletin throughout the day, leading to more detailed analysis on the Good Evening Wales programme and on the following morning's Good Morning Wales programme. BBC Wales' political editor Betsan Powys published an online blog at around 11am on 11th November, called "The Interview", in which she talked about the freshly released unemployment figures for Wales. In the 1:30pm lunchtime news bulletin on BBC1, Wales Today reported briefly on the new jobless figures for Wales...

When you say "BBC Wales" couldn't be bothered, were you perhaps referring to a specific programme or reporter?
November 26, 2009 6:57 pm
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