A statistical agency reports the following labour-market information for a UK city. No person appears in both benefit-record rows.
| Information | Number of people |
|---|---|
| Universal Credit claimants in the searching-for-work group | 8,250 |
| Jobseeker's Allowance claimants | 550 |
| People meeting the unemployment test in a household survey | 8,900 |
Calculate the Claimant Count for the city. Show your working.
Explain one reason why the household-survey estimate may be higher than the Claimant Count calculated in part (a).
65 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 3.2 Low unemployment, covering 3.2.1 Employment and unemployment, 3.2.2 Measuring unemployment, 3.2.3 Calculate the unemployment rate, 3.2.4 Analyse unemployment figures, 3.2.5 Types of unemployment, and 3.2.6 Causes and consequences of unemployment. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.