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Registered unemployment

1,810 people were registered as unemployed and actively seeking work (ASW) in Jersey in March 2012.

The Social Security Department compiles and administers data on people registered as unemployed and actively seeking work in Jersey. The States of Jersey Statistics Unit has taken over responsibility for independently analysing this anonymised data and since the end of January 2010 has published monthly reports of the figures.

Latest figures

The March 2012 report shows that:

on a seasonally adjusted basis, the total number of people registered as unemployed and actively seeking work (ASW) in Jersey was 90 higher than a month earlier (February 2012) and 140 higher than the average for the preceding 3 months. It was the highest level recorded to date
the non-seasonally adjusted ASW total was 1,810. This latest monthly total is 10 lower than a month earlier (February 2012), 500 higher than that of a year earlier (March 2011) and 640 higher than that of 2 years earlier (March 2010)
long-term unemployment (registered for more than 52 weeks) has almost doubled during the last 12 months and now accounts for more than 1 in 6 of total ASW
280 teenagers aged 16-19 years were registered as ASW, some 20 fewer than a month earlier (February 2012) and 110 were on the Advance to Work scheme

Download unemployment report for March 2012 (size 229kb)

Internationally comparable measures of unemployment

The internationally comparable unemployment rate (as defined by the International Labour Organisation, ILO) is measured on an annual basis by means of the Jersey Annual Social Survey and also by the Jersey Census. The ILO unemployment rate measures the proportion of unemployed people in the entire work force.

In March 2011 the ILO unemployment rate was 4.7%, as measured by the 2011 Jersey census. This figure corresponds to 2,569 people being unemployed at that time.

Previous report 2012

Registered unemployment report for February 2012
Registered unemployment report for January 2012

Previous reports 2011

Previous reports 2010

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