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Decrease among immigrants from Eastern Europe
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2001-02-22T10:00:00.000Z
Labour market and earnings;Immigration and immigrants
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Registered unemployed among immigrants (discontinued in Statistics Norway), Q4 2000

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Decrease among immigrants from Eastern Europe

Registered unemployment among Eastern Europeans decreased by 0.8 percentage points from November 1999 to November 2000. Among first generation immigrants in total there has been an increase from 6.6 per cent to 6.9 per cent. For the entire population the unemployment only inreased from 2.4 to 2.5 per cent - all calculated as a fraction of the labour force.

Immigrants from Africa had still the highest registered unemployment rate, 12.9 per cent at the end of November followed by the immigrants from Asia with 9.5 per cent . Among immigrants from Eastern Europe there has been a decrease from 9.5 per cent to 8.7 per cent from November 1999 to November 2000. Among other groups of immigrants an increase has been registered.

The registered unemployment rate for male immigrants was 7.8 per cent in November last year, while the unemployment rate for female immigrants was 5.7 per cent. For the whole country these figures were 2.8 per cent for men and 2.2 per cent for women.

Unemployment among male immigrants increased by 0.4 percentage points. Among women there has been a slight decrease of 0.1 percentage points.

The number of persons covered by ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes) showed only a slight increase from November 1999 to November 2000 at the national level and among immigrants of 0.1 and 0.4 percentage points respectively . At the end of November last year, 5 331 immigrants were enrolled in public sector job creation programmes. They accounted for 31.0 per cent of all persons covered by such schemes and included mostly non-western immigrants. Immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe had the highest percentage of participants in such labour market schemes in relation to the population, with 4.2 and 3.7 per cent respectively..

The statistics are published four times annually in the Daily Bulletin of Statistics. For more information contact: bjorn.olsen@ssb.no , tel. +47 21 09 47 91 or bjorn.mathisen@ssb.no , tel. +47 21 09 48 89.