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The seasonally adjusted Live Register total for July 2024 was 171,900 people, down by 100 people or 0.1% from June 2024.
The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 185,968 people for July 2024.
Of the 185,968 people on the unadjusted Live Register in July 2024, 51.4% were male and 71.7% were Irish.
The 25-34 age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register in July 2024 at 42,954 people or 23.1% of the total.
There was an increase in the number of people on the Live Register in three counties in the 12 months to July 2024: - Kildare (+3.5%), Offaly (+1.1%) and Laois (+0.3%).
In July 2024 there were 122,109 people on the Live Register for less than one year, which was 4,676 fewer people (-3.7%) than July 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 | |
| July 2023 | 194,786 | 180,500 |
| June 2024 | 174,909 | 172,000 |
| July 2024 | 185,968 | 171,900 |
| Change in month | - | -100 |
| Change in year | -8,818 | - |
The number of Jobseekers Benefit claims increased by 5.6% (+2,771) in July 2024 compared with 12 months earlier.
Data up to the end of June 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 (02 August 2024) issued results from the Live Register for July 2024.
Commenting on today’s publication, Conor Delves, Statistician in the Labour Market Analysis Section, said:
“The unadjusted Live Register total for July 2024 was 185,968. When seasonal effects are considered, the seasonally adjusted Live Register total for July 2024 was 171,900 or 100 fewer people than June 2024.
There were 18,039 people benefitting from the EU's Temporary Protection Directive included in the Live Register figures for July 2024, a decrease of 490 people from June 2024.
The largest percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to July 2024 were recorded in Kildare (+3.5%) and Offaly (+1.1%) - (See PxStat Table LRM15).
The number of people on the Live Register for one year or more in July 2024 was 63,859, which was 4,142 fewer people (-6.1%) than a year earlier. There were 122,109 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.”