Monthly Bulletin. Employment. Monthly statistics of registered unemployed in the Community. 1983.9/10

Abstract

At the end of September 1983 there were 12.0 million,and at the end of Oc-tober 1983 12,1 million persons registered as unemployed at public employ-ment offices in the Community of the Nine. The unemployment rate among the civilian working population thus rose from 10.7% in September 1983 to 10.8% in October 1983. The large increase which occurred in September 1983 in the number of un-employed persons in the Community of the Nine ( 2. 9% compared with 0. 7% during October) is mainly attributable to the continuing arrival of school-leavers on the unemployment register. Particularly large rises were recorded in France and the United Kingdom. In France, unemployment as a whole increased by 7.9% between August and September 1983, with the rise in unemployment among young persons aged under 25 years even greater at 16.3%. In the United Kingdom, the corresponding figures for the same period were 5.2% and 12% respectively.