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Table 2: Proportion of claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance by duration( 1) of claim
Percentage
	September 2009				October 2009
Duration of claim:	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks	Up to 13 weeks	Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks	Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks	Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks
Bath	53	19	20	6	51	22	19	7
Bournemouth East	47	22	24	6	48	23	22	7
Bournemouth West	47	22	24	6	48	21	24	6
Bridgwater	52	21	20	6	54	21	19	6
Bristol East	44	23	24	8	44	22	24	9
Bristol North West	43	23	25	8	45	21	25	9
Bristol South	44	23	26	7	44	23	24	8
Bristol West	51	20	20	8	50	21	20	8
Cheltenham	39	21	26	12	38	20	26	13
Christchurch	51	21	21	6	49	23	21	7
Cotswold	45	24	22	8	46	21	23	8
Devizes	47	22	22	7	46	22	22	8
East Devon	53	21	20	5	54	20	19	6
Exeter	51	21	20	8	52	20	19	8
Falmouth and Camborne	52	20	19	8	53	20	18	8
Forest of Dean	42	22	26	9	42	21	25	11
Gloucester	41	22	26	11	41	22	25	12
Kingswood	48	23	22	6	50	23	21	6
Mid Dorset and North Poole	52	23	20	5	51	23	20	6
North Cornwall	53	21	20	6	56	19	17	7
North Devon	57	21	17	5	58	20	16	6
North Dorset	53	23	20	4	52	22	20	6
North Swindon	40	26	26	7	42	23	27	7
North Wiltshire	46	24	23	6	45	23	22	8
Northavon	51	23	21	4	52	22	21	5
Plymouth, Devonport	46	20	23	7	47	19	22	8
Plymouth, Sutton	45	19	24	8	43	20	24	9
Poole	49	25	21	5	50	23	21	6
Salisbury	51	22	21	6	49	23	20	7
Somerton and Frome	52	21	21	5	53	20	21	5
South Dorset	51	21	20	7	54	20	20	7
South East Cornwall	55	21	18	6	55	21	18	6
South Swindon	40	24	26	8	40	22	27	9
South West Devon	52	23	18	6	53	21	19	6
St Ives	48	21	20	9	53	19	18	9
Stroud	46	24	22	7	45	26	22	7
Taunton	48	24	23	4	47	25	23	5
Teignbridge	54	22	17	6	52	23	18	7
Tewkesbury	44	22	23	9	44	22	23	9
Tiverton and Honiton	53	20	19	7	53	20	19	8
Torbay	48	21	21	9	49	20	20	10
Torridge and West Devon	45	21	24	9	47	19	22	10
Totnes	52	19	21	7	54	19	18	9
Truro and St Austell	53	20	18	7	53	20	19	7
Wansdyke	51	22	21	5	51	21	21	6
Wells	51	21	22	5	51	21	20	6
West Dorset	55	22	17	5	58	21	16	5
Westbury	45	22	23	9	45	22	23	10
Weston-Super-Mare	45	22	25	7	46	23	23	8
Woodspring	55	22	19	3	57	22	17	4
Yeovil	56	21	21	2	56	23	18	3

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