Irish Live Register: Slight fall in unemployment rate to 14.3% in December; Number of non-nationals at 76,220
Jan 5th, 2012 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Irish Live Register: The standardised unemployment rate (SUR) in December 2011 was 14.3%, down slightly from a rate of 14.4% in November. The latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate from the Quarterly National Household Survey was 14.4% in the third quarter of 2011. On a seasonally adjusted basis there was a decrease of 3,300 (-0.7%) on the Live Register in the month to December 2011 bringing the seasonally adjusted total to 443,200. The number of non-nationals on the register was 76,220 -- almost unchanged compared with December 2010.