ILO unemployment won’t necessarily follow claimant count down

The claimant count measure of unemployment has been falling more sharply than the wider ILO measure used by the MPC in its forward guidance on interest rates. While the claimant count is a timelier measure, we do not think that it necessarily heralds an imminent drop in the ILO one.

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