Agreed. Figures of “number of people in full time employment receiving monthly pay for more than six months” would be far more useful. A few big categories to c

Agreed. Figures of “number of people in full time employment receiving monthly pay for more than six months” would be far more useful. A few big categories to cover most of the market, would be enough to get a real insight into the current situation. The UK has “record low unemployment”, but very low productivity and a lot of homelessness and poverty. From personal experience it seems pretty clear that the explanation is mostly that the unemployment rate is far far higher than stated. But the stats are so meaningless and fudged that you can’t show it. Much harder to fake a list of employed people and say “look at all these jobs” than to provide a list of “unemployed people” with the assumption that everyone off the list is not unemployed...