On Tuesday a Scottish government account tweeted that Scotland’s youth unemployment rate “fell by 0.3 percentage points over the year”.
This is looking at a dataset which is less reliable than the usual statistics on youth unemployment—which actually show that youth unemployment has risen in the last year.
The UK Statistics Authority has today asked the Scottish government to make it clear that the data it used is not considered reliable.
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