asked the Taoiseach the number and percentage of persons unemployed in each EEC member state.
Written Answers. - EEC Unemployed.
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The following table shows the number of persons registered as unemployed at public employment offices in each member state of the EEC at the end of May 1983. It also shows the percentage of the civilian working population in each member state which these numbers represent.
|
EEC Member State |
Persons registered as unemployed, May 1983 |
|
|
No. (000) |
Percentage of civilian working population |
|
|
Federal Republic of Germany |
2,148.7 |
8.1 |
|
France |
1,913.0 |
8.4 |
|
Italy |
2,717.0 |
12.0 |
|
The Netherlands |
753.1 |
14.1 |
|
Belgium |
545.5 |
13.4 |
|
Luxembourg |
2.2 |
1.4 |
|
United Kingdom |
3,049.3 |
11.8 |
|
Ireland |
187.4 |
15.0 |
|
Denmark* |
248.0 |
9.4 |
|
Total for Nine Member States |
11,564.2 |
10.4 |
|
Greece |
50.1 |
1.5 |
|
EEC Total |
11,614.3 |
10.2 |
* Preliminary estimate.
The data are taken from a monthly bulletin relating to statistics of registered unemployment which is published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities. A "Technical Note" to the publication indicates that differing national legislation and administrative procedures result in the data being suitable only for the analysis of trends and not for intercountry comparisons of absolute levels of unemployment. Problems of comparability are particularly acute in the case of the unemployment figures for Greece.