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This is the website for the South West Observatory Economy Module with data, information and analysis about the economy and labour market in and about South West England.
The Economy Module is coordinated by the South West Observatory Core Unit. Please let us know if you have any thoughts on how we could improve our site and, of course, email if you have any specific questions that you need answers to.
ECONOMIC DATA OF THE DAY

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  • South West LEPs notified vacancies by industry - July 2012Released monthly, this chart highlights the number of vacancies currently available via Job Centre Plus (JCP) in each of the LEP areas. The data is displayed in broad industrial groups and interestingly shows that, despite the ongoing difficulties in the financial sector, it has the greatest number of vacancies. Some sectors might not advertise vacancies in JCP as others. See more.

What's New : Economy Module

BANK LENDING TO SMEs – Find out more about new BIS-commissioned research looking into bank lending to Small and Medium sized businesses over the period 2011 – 2012. See Economy Resources.

UNDEREMPLOYMENT IN THE UK – New resource added to Economy Resources, produced by NIESR, introducing a new measure of labour market ‘slack’ in underemployment. Find out more.

SOUTH WEST BUSINESS TRACKER – See the latest South West Business Tracker, covering the market conditions for some of the most significant publicly traded businesses in the region – up to the end of March 2013. See more.

UPDATED CLAIMANT COUNT & LABOUR FORCE SURVEY – See the latest claimant count data added onto Economy Data.

Useful Economic Reports / Documents

Below we've listed a selection of useful, or recent, Economic Reports and documents. For a comprehensive list of Economy Module publications see Economy Publications.

Economic Data for South West LEPs

Click on the interactive map below to access new LEP Economic Profiles, containing up-to-date data.

LEPs Map (Economic Profiles)
South West LEPs. Click on the coloured areas to find new economic data about each LEP area.
Cornwall & ScillyHeart of the South WestBournemouth, Dorset & PooleWest of EnglandGloucestershireSwindon & Wiltshire
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Latest Economic Data

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  • Summary of Retail Sales, April 2013
    Summary of key points from the Retail Sales release for April 2013 22 May 2013
  • Retail Sales - April 2013
    Contains a first estimate of retail sales in volume and value terms, seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted 22 May 2013
  • Reference Table, Retail Sales, Business Analysis, April 2013
    This table illustrates the extent to which individual businesses experienced actual changes in their sales between April 2012 and April 2013. The table contains information only from businesses which reported in both periods. Cells with values less than 10 are suppressed for some classification categories 22 May 2013
  • Retail Sales, April 2013
    Contains a first estimate of retail sales in value and volume terms, seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted. 22 May 2013
  • Reference Table, Retail Sales, Data Tables, April 2013
    The monthly GB RSI goes to a sample of almost 5,000 retailers of all sizes. All of the largest retailers are included together with a sample of smaller retailers. The commodity analysis in table 5 is based on returns of total retail sales from the panel of 5,000 businesses plus the commodity sales breakdown from around 31 of the largest retailers that sell a mix of commodities. The additional information from the 31 largest retailers is used to distribute sales more accurately into the four... 22 May 2013

South West Observatory Update

NEW Health and Wellbeing: Implementing the Act - See new presentations from our latest event looking at the implications of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. See more. 

NEW SWO responds to claimant count statistics consultation. See more.

Welfare Reform: Challenges, Impacts, Evidence - See the presentations and resources from our latest event, looking at the challenges of welfare reform. See more.

Forecasting, Planning and Admissions: Getting Pupil Numbers Right - Access all the presentations from our pupil numbers forecasting event, looking at the policy context, funding education and lifelong learning plus the role of the Community Infrastructure Levy. See more.

Job Centre Plus Statistics - Read SWO's response to the consultation on changes to Job Centre Plus vacancies statistics. See more.
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