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THE
NOT BELOW
POINT BELOW THE PREVIOUS
WHILE SIGNIFICANT.
THE THE SAME PERIOD A YEAR
OF 0.1 PERCENTAGE DECREASE
PERIOD IS STATISTICALLY THREE-MONTH DECREASE OF 1.2 EARLIER IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
PERCENTAGE POINTS
JUNE
AUGUST 1987 WAS
MONTHS
THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS IN ESTIMATED AT 50,500, WHICH WAS THE SAME AS THAT FOR THE THREE ENDING MAY 1987; AND THAT FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING AUGUST 1986 81,700.
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AUGUST 1987 WAS ONE THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JUNE CENT WHICH COMPARES WITH 1.1 PER CENT FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING 1987. THE RATE FOR JUNE AUGUST 1986 WAS 1.5 PER CENT
―
0.1 PERCENTAGE
STATISTICALLY
NOT
7
WAS
PER
MAY
THE
PREVIOUS
WHILE
THE
BARLIER
THE DECREASE OF
POINT BELOW
PERIOD IS
SIGNIFICANT, THREE-MONTH DECREASE OF 0.5 PERCENTAGE POINT BELOW THE SAME PERIOD A YEAR IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
THE ESTIMATED
NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS FOR
29,600 FOR THE THREE MONTHS AUGUST 1987 WAS 27,400, COMPARED WITH ENDING MAY 1987 AND 39,900 FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING AUGUST 1986.
JUNE
—
CONSISTENT
WITH
THE THAN
OF CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO), PERSONS WHO WORKED LESS 35 HOURS A WEEK DUE TO ECONOMIC REASONS (SUCH AS SLACK WORK, SHORTAGE, MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN AND INABILITY TO FIND WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.
MATERIAL. FULL-TIME WORK) WERE EITHER SEEKING OR
FOR
CENSUS AND JOB-SEEKERS MONTH TO MONTH,
TAKE ACCOUNT JOB-SEEKERS SHOULD BE
COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, THE COMMISSIONER STATISTICS SAID THAT BECAUSE THE PROPORTION OF FIRST-TIME (E.G. PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST LEFT SCHOOL) VARIES FROM UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.
BASED THAT,
ON A SYSTEM OF MANUAL FOR THE LATEST
THE COMMISSIONER ADDED EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES MONTH, PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT THE LATEST THREE-MONTH PERIOD WEEKS AFTER THE SURVEY. THESE LATEST TREND IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT SITUATION.
AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATES COVERING
BE MADE
TWO
AN EARLY
OF THE
COULD PROVIDE
AVAILABLE
WITHIN
INDICATION
CENT
SEASONALLY
AND THE
ADJUSTED,
FOR
PROVISIONAL
THE PROVISIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE,
1.8 1987 WAS
PER UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS ONE PER CENT.
JULY
SEPTEMBER
THE UNEMPLOYMENT