12 April 2024
The registered unemployment report for the first quarter of 2024 has been published today by Statistics Jersey.
Customer and Local Services compiles data on people registered as actively seeking work (ASW) in Jersey. Statistics Jersey independently analyses this anonymised data and publishes a quarterly report.
Summary
On 31 March 2024:
- on a seasonally adjusted basis, the total number of people registered as actively seeking work (ASW) was 10 higher than at the end of the previous quarter and 100 higher compared with a year earlier
- the non-seasonally adjusted ASW total was 700; this total is 20 lower than the end of the previous quarter and 90 higher compared with a year earlier
- a greater number of females (370 individuals) than males (330 individuals) were registered as ASW
- the total number of long-term ASW (registered for more than twelve months) was 180; this total is essentially unchanged from the previous quarter and 10 higher compared with a year earlier
- of the 700 people registered as ASW, 220 individuals were engaged in some form of paid employment and classified as underemployed; this includes 70 individuals who were classified as long-term ASW