Jobless down in December

The National Statistics Office said the latest Employment and Training Corporation statistics indicated that 7,516 were registering for work in December last year. This represented an increase of 83 persons when compared to December 2001, the NSO...

The National Statistics Office said the latest Employment and Training Corporation statistics indicated that 7,516 were registering for work in December last year.

This represented an increase of 83 persons when compared to December 2001, the NSO said.

The number of those registering for work in December 2002 went down by 350 persons compared to the previous November.

The NSO said that according to revised figures, in September last year there were 7,520 persons registering for work with the ETC, an unemployment rate of 5.2 per cent.

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