THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONCEALED UNEMPLOYMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN.

It has long been recognized that the British unemployment figures presented monthly by the Department of Employment are biased downwards when compared with, say, the official U.S. data which are collected by a regular sample survey,[1] but in the 1966 Sample Census the unemployed in Britain were divided into those who registered at the exchanges, those who were sick and did not register, and those who did not register for other reasons. It is suggested here that the implication of the Census figures is that the dispersion of unemployment between different occupational, age and regional groups was, and almost certainly remains, less than is often believed. This paper will briefly examine the occupational, age and regional patterns in turn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]