25 March 2014
The latest unemployment figures have been released by the Statistics Unit,
On 28 February 2014:
- on a seasonally adjusted basis, the total number of people registered as actively seeking work (ASW) in Jersey was 70 lower than a month earlier, in January 2014 and 90 lower than the average for the preceding three months
- the seasonally adjusted ASW total was the lowest for 18 months, since August 2012
- the non-seasonally adjusted ASW total was 1,860; this latest total is at the same level as in the previous month (January 2014) but 170 lower than in the corresponding month of 2013
- long-term ASW (registered for more than twelve months) accounted for a sixth of total ASW; the number of long-term ASW (310 individuals) was marginally higher than a month earlier (January 2014), which had recorded the lowest number of long-term ASW for more than a year
- 280 teenagers aged 16-19 years were registered as ASW, a similar number as in the previous month; 160 teenagers were on the Advance to Work scheme
Download Actively Seeking Work report for February 2014 (size 252kb)