​​The Social Security Department compiles and administers data on people registered as Actively Seeking Work in Jersey. The States of Jersey Statistics Unit independently analyses this anonymised data and publishes monthly reports of the figures.

On 31 December 2014:

• on a seasonally adjusted  basis, the total number of people registered as actively seeking work (ASW) in Jersey was at the same level as the previous month (November 2014) and 30 lower than the average (mean) for the preceding three months
• the seasonally adjusted ASW total remained at the lowest level for more than three years, since September 2011
• the non-seasonally adjusted ASW total was 1,440; this total is 10 lower than the previous month (November 2014)
• long-term ASW (registered for more than twelve months) accounted for around one in seven (15%) of total ASW and was the lowest number recorded for more than three and a half years
• 200 teenagers (aged 16 to 19 years) were registered as ASW, 20 fewer than the previous month (November 2014) and 70 fewer than twelve months earlier (December 2013)