10 November 2014
The latest registered unemployment figures have been released by the States Statistics Unit.
On 31 October 2014:
- the non-seasonally adjusted actively seeking work (ASW) total was 1,430. This total is 20 lower than the previous month (September 2014)
- both the seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted ASW totals in the latest month were the lowest for more than three years, since September 2011
- long-term ASW (registered for more than twelve months) accounted for a sixth (16%) of total ASW. The latest number of long-term ASW was 20 lower than in the previous month and was the lowest recorded since May 2011
- 220 teenagers (aged 16 to 19 years) were registered as ASW, 20 fewer than at the end of the previous month (September 2014) and 100 fewer than a year earlier (October 2013)