LONDON (AFX) - The UK April jobless total is expected to have fallen a seasonally-adjusted 5,000 on a claimant-count basis from March, according to the median of 18 analysts' forecasts compiled by AFX News. The claimant count fell a seasonally-adjusted 5,500 to 995,200 in March, while the unemployment rate stood at 3.3 pct, unchanged on the previous month. March headline average earnings - the average of the year-on-year increase in the seasonally-adjusted average earnings index for each of the latest three months - are expected to have risen 5.0 pct year-on-year, unchanged from the three months to February. Three months to March unit wage costs are forecast to have fallen 1.0 pct year on year, compared with the 1.4 pct decline recorded in February. Labour market data are released on Wednesday April 16th.