claimant count

• what is the claimant count?

  number of people receiving benefits for being unemployed.
• what does the claimant count do?

  provides the number of claimants on particular day each month and the numbers joining and leaving the count each month. 
• What is a disadvantage of the claimant count?

  It can be manipulated by the government
• How can the government manipulate the claimant count?

  By changing rules like raising the school leaving age
• What effect does raising the school leaving age have on the claimant count?

  It reduces the number of people eligible for benefits
• Who is excluded from the claimant count?

  People looking for work but not eligible for benefits
• What choice might affect someone's eligibility to claim benefits?

  Choosing not to claim any benefits
• Why is the claimant count not fully representative of unemployment?

  It excludes those not claiming benefits
• how is easy data obtained an advantage for claimant count?

  count the number of people claiming the unemployment-related benefits.
• how's no cost in collecting data an advantage of claimant count?

  as it's recorded when people apply for the benefits