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Labour force survey, seasonally-adjusted figures, July 2010

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Decrease in unemployment

A total of 3.3 per cent of the workforce was unemployed in July; a decrease of 0.3 percentage points since April.

Employment (LFS). Seasonally-adjusted figures and trend figures. Three-month moving average in 1 000. 1999-2010

Unemployment (LFS). Seasonally-adjusted figures and trend figures. Three-month moving average. 1999-2010. In per cent of the labour force.

Adjusted for seasonal variations, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows that the number of unemployed persons was reduced by 9.000, or 0.3 percentage points, from April (average March-May) to July (average June-August).

In comparison, seasonally-adjusted figures for those registered unemployed with the Labour and Welfare Organisation (NAV) including government initiatives to promote employment fell by about 5 000. These figures have also been adjusted for seasonal variations.

Increase in employment

In the period from April to July employment rose by 25 000 persons. Persons older than 25 years made up almost all of the employment increase.

The labour force is the total of employed and unemployed between 16-74 years of age. From April to July employment rose by 25 000 and unemployment fell by 9 000. This gives an increase in the labour force of 16 000 people.

The coherence between the concepts

Unemployed + Employed = Labour force

Labour force + Outside the labour force = Population

Decrease in unemployment in USA and Scandinavia

Between April and July, the USA saw a decrease in unemployment of 0.4 percentage points, and the unemployment rate in July ended at 9.5 per cent. Both Sweden and Denmark had a decrease of 0.5 percentage points in the same period, ending at 8.5 and 6.9 per cent respectively. In the EU-15, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.5 per cent in July. All figures refer to seasonally-adjusted data from Eurostat .

Unemployed (LFS), registered unemployed and registered unemployed plus government initiatives to promote employment. Seasonally-adjusted figures, three-month moving average in 1 000. 1997-2010

Seasonally-adjusted unemployment in selected countries, 2004-2010. Percentage of the labour force

Employment and unemployment figures include permanent residents

The LFS only includes persons who are registered as residents in the population register. Persons working in Norway who are not registered as permanent residents or who are planning to stay for less than six months are not included in the employment figure in the LFS. If these people lose their job, it does not count as a fall in employment or a rise in unemployment. In national accounts figures (NR), employed non-residents are included in the employment figure as long as they work in an establishment in Norway. If employment decreases in this group it will count as a fall in employment in NR. Statistics Norway publishes separate figures for all registered non-residents once a year. See short-term immigrants .

Uncertain figures

The purpose of making seasonal adjustments is to describe the development over the last year, corrected for seasonal variations. In order to reduce uncertainty, the published series are three-month moving averages of the seasonally-adjusted figures. However, uncertainty means that sampling errors must be considered when interpreting the figures from the LFS. We normally compare the latest non-overlapping three-month periods. An overview of sampling errors in the LFS can be found in “ About the statistics ”, chapter 5 section 3.

Quarterly LFS figures, not seasonally adjusted, are presented in a separate article .

Revisions

The complete time series is re-estimated each month, and this may cause some adjustments of previously published figures. See Revisions for more information .

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