| dc.description.abstract | The rapid growth of registered unemployment in the European Community of the Nine since the Spring of 1980 continued during September 1981 with a seasonally-adjusted increase of 2.4%. Once more the increase was more for men than for women(+ 2.7% aginast + 1.8%). With 9 .. 4 million people registered as unemployed at public employment offices at the end of September, the Community of Nine reached an unemployment rate of 8.5% of the civilian working population, compared with 8.3% at the end of August. The lowest unemployment rate was in Luxembourg (1.0%) followed bt F.R. Germany (4.8%). At· the other end of the scale were Ireland with 10.4%, the United Kingdom 11.5% and Belgium 12.8%. Seasonally-adjusted figures, despite somewhat divergent tendencies in the absolute numbers unemployed, show a worsening of the situation already observed over recent months in all Community countries, without exception. |
