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Reduced unemployment among immigrants
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2001-05-23T10:00:00.000Z
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Registered unemployed among immigrants (discontinued in Statistics Norway), Q1 2001

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Reduced unemployment among immigrants

Registered unemployment among first generation immigrants decreased slightly from 7.5 to 7.3 per cent from February 2000 to February 2001. For the entire population the unemployment rate has been stable, 2.8 per cent - all figures calculated as a fraction of the labour force.

Immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa had the largest decrease, 1.3 and 1.0 percentage points respectively, but the unemployment rate among Africans of 13.4 per cent is still the highest among immigrants. Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe also had a high rate, 9.9 and 9.6 per cent respectively. The rate for immigrants from Western Europe was only a few decimals higher than for the entire population.

Among males, immigrants from Eastern Europe had the highest decrease , 1.5 percentage points from February 2000 to February 2001, while female immigrants from Africa had the highest decrease, 1.4 percentage points.

In the entire population men had an unemployment rate of 3.1 per cent while the women's rate was 2.4 per cent. Among immigrants these numbers were 8.3 and 6.1 per cent.

The number of persons covered by ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes) showed at the national level only a marginal increase, from 0,4 per cent in February 2000 to 0,5 per cent in February 2001 - in relation to the population 16 - 74 years of age. Among immgrants this number increased from 1.7 to 2.1 per cent.

At the end of February this year, 4 645 immigrants were enrolled in public sector job creation programmes. They accounted for 32.0 per cent of all persons covered by such schemes and included mostly non-western immigrants. Immigrants from Africa had the highest percentage of participants in such labour market schemes, 3,6 per cent in relation to the African immigrant population. Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe also had a high level of participation in such programmes, 3.1 per cent in both groups.