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The number of jobseekers is continuing to fall in Jersey – here's what the latest breakdown shows...
The latest 'Actively Seeking Work' figures were published by Statistics Jersey today.
Overall, there were 700 people registered as 'ASW'.
This was 40 lower than the previous quarter once seasonal adjustments had been made, and 110 down on the same period last year.
The latest figures show a continuing decline in unemployment from a recent peak in June 2020 early in the pandemic when 2,300 were registered as actively seeking work.
At the end of last month there was a slight increase in the number of long-term actively seeking work – those registered for more than 12 months – which was up from 170 to 180, although numbers are 30 lower than a year earlier.
While islanders who are unemployed are not required to register as actively seeking work, they cannot receive income support without registering and 90% of those on the register were receiving income support, the latest analysis shows.
Around a quarter of those on the register were claiming long term incapacity allowance, a figure which remained constant compared with the figure at the end of September last year.
Women outnumbered men by 420 to 280.
There were more women than men in all the age groups between the ages of 25 and 54 but men constituted the largest number among those aged 16 to 24 and those between 55 and 64.
Of September's total 570 people, 81% of the total, were classed as being of British or Jersey nationality.
60 people were of Portuguese or Madeiran nationality and 40 from countries joining the European Union in May 2004 and February 2007.
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