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Labour force survey, seasonally-adjusted figures, December 2010

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Employment rising

From September to December 2010 the number of employed persons rose by 18 000. The unemployment rate in December was 3.4 per cent.

Unemployment (LFS). Seasonally-adjusted figures and trend figures. Three-month moving average. 1999-2011. In per cent of the labour force.

Employment (LFS). Seasonally-adjusted figures and trend figures. Three-month moving average in 1 000. 1999-2011

Adjusted for seasonal variations, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows that the number of employed persons increased by 18 000 persons from September (average August-October) to December (average November-January). The increase came among persons within the age group 25-74 years.

Small changes in the unemployment rate

Adjusted for seasonal variations the number of unemployed persons was reduced by 5 000, or 0.2 percentage points from September to December. The decrease is within the error margin of the LFS.

In comparison, there were no changes in the seasonally-adjusted figures for those registered unemployed with the Labour and Welfare Organisation (NAV). These figures have also been adjusted for seasonal variations.

The labour force is the total of employed and unemployed between 16-74 years of age. From September to December, employment increased by 18 000 and unemployment was reduced by 5 000. This gives an increase in the labour force of 13 000 persons.

The coherence between the concepts

Unemployed + Employed = Labour force

Labour force + Outside the labour force = Population

Decrease in unemployment in Sweden

Between September and December, Sweden saw a decrease in unemployment of 0.4 percentage points, with the unemployment rate in December ending at 7.8 per cent. In the same period, Denmark had an increase of 0.6 per cent, ending at 8.2 per cent. In the USA, the unemployment rate was reduced by 0.2 percentage points from September to December. A total of 9.4 per cent of the labour force in the USA was without a job in December. All figures refer to seasonally-adjusted data from Eurostat .

Seasonally-adjusted unemployment in selected countries, 2004-2011. Percentage of the labour force

Unemployed (LFS), registered unemployed and registered unemployed plus government initiatives to promote employment. Seasonally-adjusted figures, three-month moving average in 1 000. 1997-2011

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 . Interviews that arrive late are included in the LFS the following month. This applies for the first two months of every quarter.

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