Weekly Bulletin issue 34, 1996

Continued improvement in labour market

Employment in Norway grew by 68,000 jobs last year, while the number of persons without work declined by 17,000. A total of 115,000 persons were without jobs in the second quarter of 1996. This works out to an unemployment rate to 5.1 per cent according to new figures from Statistics Norway's Labour Force Survey (LFS).

From second quarter 1995 to second quarter 1996 employment rose in all age groups, particularly among young people between the ages of 16 and 24. Of those unemployed, 32 per cent were long-term unemployed. This is down 15,500 compared the same time in 1995, when the percentage of long-term unemployed was 47 per cent.

New Statistics

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1996.
Statistics are published quarterly in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Detailed figures in basic tables from the LFS. More information: Ole Sandvik, tel. +47 21 09 45 77, e-mail: osa@ssb.no or Inger Håland, tel. +47 21 09 47 80, e-mail: iha@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue 34, 1996

Continued improvement in labour market

New Statistics

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1996.Statistics are published quarterly in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Detailed figures in basic tables from the LFS. More information: Ole Sandvik, tel. +47 21 09 45 77, e-mail: osa@ssb.no or Inger Håland, tel. +47 21 09 47 80, e-mail: iha@ssb.no.

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1996.
Statistics are published quarterly in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Detailed figures in basic tables from the LFS. More information: Ole Sandvik, tel. +47 21 09 45 77, e-mail: osa@ssb.no or Inger Håland, tel. +47 21 09 47 80, e-mail: iha@ssb.no.