Weekly Bulletin issue 24, 1996

Unemployment among immigrants declines

Registered unemployment among immigrants fell from 13.1 to 11.9 per cent from February 1995 to February this year. During the same period, the jobless rate for the population as a whole fell from 5.3 to 4.5 per cent. The biggest decline in registered unemployment was seen among men immigrants from the Third World.

In February this year a total of 11,509 immigrants were registered as unemployed in Norway. This is a reduction of 661 persons from the same time last year. The figures cover first generation immigrants.

New statistics

Unemployment among immigrants, 1st quarter 1996.
Statistics are published four times a year in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Jan Erik Sivertsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 82, e-mail: jsi@ssb.no or Irene Tuveng, tel. +47 21 09 44 47, e-mail: itu@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue 24, 1996

Unemployment among immigrants declines

New statistics

Unemployment among immigrants, 1st quarter 1996.Statistics are published four times a year in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Jan Erik Sivertsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 82, e-mail: jsi@ssb.no or Irene Tuveng, tel. +47 21 09 44 47, e-mail: itu@ssb.no.

Unemployment among immigrants, 1st quarter 1996.
Statistics are published four times a year in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. More information: Jan Erik Sivertsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 82, e-mail: jsi@ssb.no or Irene Tuveng, tel. +47 21 09 44 47, e-mail: itu@ssb.no.