17/10/2007
Unemployment Figure Continues To Fall
Northern Ireland’s unemployment rate is below the UK average of 5.4% and also well below the 6.8% of the 27 European Union member states.
In fact, unemployment locally has shown yet another drop on past statistics.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was put at 3.6% for the June - August period - representing a slight fall from the 4.2% of the previous quarter and the 4.3% of a year before.
On the downside, figures on people in employment for the same period showed a fall to 767,000, down 2.4% on the previous quarter and a decrease of 0.2% on the year.
The number of people claiming unemployment related benefits was down again to 23,100 - a drop of 200 on the month and 4,500 over the year.
However, the number of people of working age who are economically inactive went up from 25.8% to 27.8% over the quarter - a rate significantly above the UK average rate of 21.3%.
Economy Minister Nigel Dodds welcomed the figures and said it was encouraging to see the level of unemployment being maintained below that of the UK average for two years.
(BMcC)
In fact, unemployment locally has shown yet another drop on past statistics.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was put at 3.6% for the June - August period - representing a slight fall from the 4.2% of the previous quarter and the 4.3% of a year before.
On the downside, figures on people in employment for the same period showed a fall to 767,000, down 2.4% on the previous quarter and a decrease of 0.2% on the year.
The number of people claiming unemployment related benefits was down again to 23,100 - a drop of 200 on the month and 4,500 over the year.
However, the number of people of working age who are economically inactive went up from 25.8% to 27.8% over the quarter - a rate significantly above the UK average rate of 21.3%.
Economy Minister Nigel Dodds welcomed the figures and said it was encouraging to see the level of unemployment being maintained below that of the UK average for two years.
(BMcC)
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Figures released for the period April - July 2013 show that the Northern Ireland unemployment rate decreased by 0.7 percentage points over the quarter to 7.5%. More recent figures for July 2013 show that the number of unemployment benefit claimants decreased by 500 over the month.
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New figures have revealed official unemployment numbers have dropped 0.2% between February and March. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) publication states the official unemployment rate has fallen from 6.6% to 6.4%, and from 8.3% compared with March last year.
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The latest unemployment rate in Northern Ireland is 6%, a decrease of 0.1% over the quarter, according to the latest Northern Ireland Labour Force Survey.
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