The working age economic activity rate at April-June 2006 and claimant count unemployment rate at August 2006 for each i) district council and ii) parliamentary constituency are shown in the following tables:
i) District councils Economic activity rate1 Claimant count unemployment rate Antrim 85.3 1.8 Ards 74.7 2.3 Armagh 78.1 1.9 Ballymena 78.0 2.2 Ballymoney 75.2 2.3 Banbridge 75.6 1.4 Belfast 71.1 4.3 Carrickfergus 77.6 2.2 Castlereagh 85.5 1.4 Coleraine 79.0 2.6 Cookstown 63.4 2.0 Craigavon 70.8 2.3 Derry 62.0 5.3 Down 70.2 2.4 Dungannon 69.9 1.8 Fermanagh 60.1 2.7 Larne 78.8 2.3 Limavady 59.3 2.9 Lisburn 77.1 2.3 Magherafelt 71.6 1.6 Moyle 67.7 3.3 Newry and Mourne 74.3 2.5 Newtownabbey 78.0 2.3 North Down 72.7 1.9 Omagh 72.1 2.4 Strabane 66.6 5.3 Northern Ireland 72.9 2.8
ii) Parliamentary constituencies Economic activity rate1 Claimant count unemployment rate Belfast East 84.6 2.2 Belfast North 69.9 4.9 Belfast South 76.6 2.5 Belfast West 51.6 6.3 East Antrim 79.7 2.8 East Londonderry 71.9 2.7 Fermanagh and South Tyrone 64.5 2.4 Foyle 62.0 5.3 Lagan Valley 81.1 1.6 Mid Ulster 67.6 1.8 Newry and Armagh 74.6 2.4 North Antrim 75.6 2.4 North Down 71.0 2.0 South Antrim 80.9 1.8 South Down 73.1 2.1 Strangford 79.4 1.9 Upper Bann 69.5 2.1 West Tyrone 69.7 3.7 Northern Ireland 72.9 2.8 1Source: Labour Force Survey, April - June 2006.