Statistical Telegram. Monthly statistics of registered unemployment in the European Community.

Abstract

At the end of 'february 1979 public employment offices in the Community recorded 6.4 Mio registered unemployed. This was 6.o% of the working population as against 6.1% in January. All Member States recorded a reduction in unemployment in February. Decreasing by 3.2%, registered unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany went down more than in the Community as a whole (-1.4%). The same was true of Denmark and Luxembourg (about -2%). The decrease in Italy and the Netherlands was about the same as the Community average, while in the United Kingdom, the reduction in unemployment was smaller (-0.2%). Compared with February 1978 registered unemployment in the Community went up by about 170 000 or 2. 7%. For individual Nember States, however, the pattern is fairly different; in some countries unemployent went up while in others it went down. Over this period registered unemployment went down in Denmark (about -10%), Federal Republic of Germany (-7.4%), Luxembourg (-6.9%) and the United Kingdom (-3.8%) but went up in France (+ 21%), Italy (+5.7%), Belgium (+5.1%) and the Netherlands (+3.1%).