The seasonally adjusted Live Register total for August 2024 was 166,100 people, down by 5,700 people or 3.3% from July 2024.
The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 177,868 people for August 2024.
Of the 177,868 people on the unadjusted Live Register in August 2024, 53.3% were male and 71.3% were Irish.
The 25-34 age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register in August 2024 at 41,850 people or 23.5% of the total.
Two counties recorded percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to August 2024 - Kildare (+1.4%) and Offaly (+1.3%).
In August 2024 there were 115,656 people on the Live Register for less than one year, which was 4,433 fewer people (-3.7%) than August 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 | |
| August 2023 | 186,117 | 174,100 |
| July 2024 | 185,968 | 171,800 |
| August 2024 | 177,868 | 166,100 |
| Change in month | - | -5,700 |
| Change in year | -8,249 | - |
The number of Jobseekers Benefit claims increased by 6.8% (+2,897) in August 2024 compared with 12 months earlier.
Data up to the end of July 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 (06 September 2024) issued results from the Live Register for August 2024.
Commenting on today’s release, Conor Delves, Statistician in the Labour Market Analysis Section, said:
“The unadjusted Live Register total for August 2024 was 177,868. When seasonal effects are considered, the seasonally adjusted Live Register total for August 2024 was 166,100 or 5,700 fewer people than July 2024.
There were 17,313 people benefitting from the EU's Temporary Protection Directive included in the Live Register figures for August 2024, a decrease of 726 people from July 2024.
Percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to August 2024 were recorded in Kildare (+1.4%) and Offaly (+1.3%) (See PxStat Table LRM15).
The number of people on the Live Register for one year or more in August 2024 was 62,212, which was 3,816 fewer people (-5.8%) than a year earlier. There were 115,656 people on the Live Register for less than one year, which represents just under two-thirds of the total number of people on the Live Register.”