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The seasonally adjusted Live Register total for April 2024 was 174,200 people, down by 300 people or 0.2% from March 2024.
The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 169,497 people for April 2024.
Of the 169,497 people on the unadjusted Live Register in April 2024, 54.8% were male and 69.0% were Irish.
The 35-44 age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register in April 2024 at 40,003 people or 23.6% of the total.
Three counties saw an increase in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to April 2024 - Meath (+5.5%) and Kildare (+0.5%) and Offaly (+0.4%)
In April 2024 there were 108,407 people on the Live Register for less than one year, which was 7,927 fewer people than April 2023.
People arriving in Ireland from Ukraine under the EU's Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) can access a wide range of Department of Social Protection (DSP) supports. The majority of new applications for income support from people of working age are being processed as Jobseeker's Allowance (JA) claims until the most appropriate income support for that person is identified. This facilitates access to existing part-time work supports where appropriate. If a person is on JA for 20* claim paid days or more, they are counted on the Live Register.
*Before October 2022, persons availing of TPD were included in the Live Register when they had been in receipt of JA for 50 days or more.
Data in this release are subject to revision based on updates to the seasonally adjusted series whenever new monthly data are added, such revisions are typically very minor in scale. It should be noted that larger revisions can occur when the comprehensive annual review of the seasonal adjustment model is carried out in January of each year. See background notes for further details.
| Total Persons on the Live Register - Unadjusted and Seasonally Adjusted | ||
| Live Register Total | Seasonally Adjusted | |
| April 2023 | 178,580 | 181,400 |
| March 2024 | 173,396 | 174,500 |
| April 2024 | 169,497 | 174,200 |
| Change in month | - | -300 |
| Change in year | -9,083 | - |
The number of Jobseekers Benefit claims increased by 6.6% (+2,381) in April 2024 compared with 12 months earlier.
Data up to the end of March 2024 on the number of persons availing of a range of programmes targeted primarily at the long-term unemployed (over 12 months) and other welfare recipients is provided in the Annex Table A1 – Number of persons availing of Activation Programmes table.
Persons on activation programmes are not counted as part of the monthly Live Register.
Detailed tables relating to the monthly estimates of the number of persons on Live Register classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions are included in the CSO Main Data Dissemination Service LRM17 on PxStat.
Table LRM13 on PxStat includes the Live Register occupational data which is sourced from information collected by the DSP on the most recent occupation of claimants when they sign on the Live Register.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (03 May 2024) issued results from the Live Register for April 2024
Commenting on today’s publication, Conor Delves, Statistician in the Labour Market Analysis Section, said:
“The unadjusted Live Register total for April 2024 was 169,497. When seasonal effects are considered, the seasonally adjusted Live Register total for April 2024 was 174,200 or 300 fewer people than March 2024.
There were 20,264 people benefitting from the EU's Temporary Protection Directive included in the Live Register figures for April 2024, a decrease of 973 people from March 2024.
The largest percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to April 2024 were recorded in Meath (5.5%) and Kildare (0.5%)- (See PxStat Table LRM15).
The number of people on the Live Register for one year or more in April 2024 was 61,090, which was 1,156 fewer people (-1.9%) than a year earlier. There were 108,407 people on the Live Register for less than one year, which represents just under two-thirds of the total number on the Live Register.”