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UK Unemployment Rate, 16 and Over (Monthly, Rolling Three Months, SA, ONS)

% · Monthly · Office for National Statistics

ONS.GBR.UNEMP.RT.16PLUS.SA.ROLLING3M.M

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Definition, coverage & attribution

Unemployment rate of people aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted, from the Labour Force Survey: a rolling three-month average. ONS labels each average by its middle month; SOTW stores it under the last month of the three, with the ONS label kept. Release times and vintages are unknown.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Labour market statistics time series (LMS), MGSX, accessed 2026-11-11.

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Series-wide coverage: 1971-03-01 to 2026-08-01. SOTW publication: 2026-11-11T10:25:09.622738+00:00.

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