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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1991

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FOR APRIL

+

JUNE 1991

RATE

ROSE,

RATE

THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT WHILE THE UNEMPLOYMENT

JUNE 1991. THE REMAINED RELATIVELY STABLE DURING THE PERIOD APRIL

CENSUS LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ARE DETAILED BELOW.

THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR APRIL WAS 2.4%, COMPARED WITH 1.8% FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDING AND 1.6% FOR THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.

—

JUNE 1991 MARCH 1991

PRECEDING

POINT OVER BOTH STATISTICALLY

THE

THE INCREASES OF 0.6 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE

OF PERIOD THREE-MONTH

AND 0.8

A PERCENTAGE YEAR A

EARLIER ARE CORRESPONDING SIGNIFICANT.

PERIOD

THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS IN APRIL

THREE JUNE 1991 WAS ESTIMATED AT 67,700, COMPARED WITH 49,900 IN THE MONTHS ENDING MARCH 1991 AND 43,900 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.

THE

RATE UNDEREMPLOYMENT

JANUARY COMPARED WITH 1.5% FOR CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR EARLIER.

FOR APRIL

-

MARCH

JUNE 1991 WAS 1991 AND 0.9%

1.7%, FOR THE

THE PRECEDING

THE INCREASE OF 0.2 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS STATISTICALLY NOT SIGNIFICANT WHILE THE INCREASE OF 0.8 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT OVER THE CORRESPONDING EARLIER IS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

PERIOD A YEAR

T

JUNE

THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS IN APRIL 1991 WAS 47,200, COMPARED WITH 43,600 IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING MARCH 1991 AND 26,100 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD A YEAR FARLIER.

OF CONSISTEN'T WITH THE

• RECOMMENDATIONS CURRENT 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 FULL-TIME WERE REGARDED AS UNDEREMPLOYED ONLY IF THEY WERE EITHER AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK.

THE THAN MATERIAL WORK)

SEEKING OR

EXAMPLE ΤΟ MONTH, TAKE ACCOUNT JOB-SEEKERS SHOULD BE

(FOR

AS THE

FIRST-TIME OF PROPORTION HAVE JUST

LEFT SCHOOL)

VARIES

JOB-SEEKERS

FROM MONTH PEOPLE WHO UNEMPLOYMENT RATES THAT HAD BEEN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED TO OF THE VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF FIRST-TIME USED IN MAKING COMPARISONS OVER TIME.

THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR MAY JULY 1991 WAS 2.3% AND THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.4%.

OBTAINED

THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

/THE SURVEY