Registered unemployment report February 2014
Produced by the
Statistics Jersey (Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance)
Authored by
Statistics Unit
and published on
25 Mar 2014
Prepared internally, no external cost
Summary
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
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