March unemployment figures

25 April 2012

The registered unemployment report for March 2012 has been released by the Statistics Unit.
The latest 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