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Live Register

July 2016

 Live Register TotalSeasonally Adjusted
July 2015363,628343,100
June 2016315,883305,400
July 2016319,294300,300
   
Change in month-- 5,100
Change in year- 44,334-

Seasonally adjusted Live Register total decreases by 5,100 in July

Live Register Seasonally Adjusted
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On a seasonally adjusted basis the Live Register total recorded a monthly decrease of 5,100 (-1.7%) in July 2016, reducing the seasonally adjusted total to 300,300. See table 2(a).

In unadjusted terms there were 319,294 people signing on the Live Register in July 2016. This represents an annual decrease of 44,334 (-12.2%). See table 1(a).

Other features include:

  • On a seasonally adjusted basis the Live Register showed a monthly decrease of 2,400 (-1.4%) males in July 2016, while females decreased by 2,600 (-2.0%) over the same period. See table 2(a).
  • The number of male claimants decreased by 29,749 (-14.1%) to 180,537 in the year to July 2016, while female claimants decreased by 14,585 (-9.5%) to 138,757.  This compares with a decrease of 31,031 (-12.9%) to 210,286 for males, while female claimants decreased by 9,856 (-6.0%) to 153,342 in the year to July 2015. See table 1(a).

The Standardised Unemployment Rate (SUR) has been discontinued and has been replaced by the Monthly Unemployment release which is available here.

The Live Register is not designed to measure unemployment.  It includes part-time workers (those who work up to three days a week), seasonal and casual workers entitled to Jobseeker’s Benefit (JB) or Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA).  Unemployment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey.

 

0
DurationLess than one yearOne year or more
Jul 2014215845188670
Aug 2014210727187598
Sep 2014191662178388
Oct 2014187738170892
Nov 2014186175166472
Dec 2015191316164796
Jan 2015193828164844
Feb 2015192348162776
Mar 2015188273160403
Apr 2015185063158488
May 2015183749161884
Jun 2015190032166488
Jul 2015198206165422
Aug 2015194807164269
Sep 2015175947156854
Oct 2015171191149603
Nov 2015169793146793
Dec 2015175442146174
Jan 2016176347145455
Feb 2016176245143478
Mar 2016174600141000
Apr 2016167563138222
May 2016166571140488
June 2016172051143832
July 2016177313141981

Live Register duration of continuous registration

The number of long term claimants on the Live Register in July 2016 was 141,981.  The number of male long term claimants decreased by 17,696 (-16.7%) in the year to July 2016, while females decreased by 5,745 (-9.6%), giving an overall annual decrease of 23,441 (-14.2%) in the number of long term claimants. See table 6 and figure 2.

In July 2016, 55.5% (177,313) of all claimants on the Live Register were short term claimants.  The comparable figure for July 2015 was 54.5% (198,206). The annual fall of 20,893 (-10.5%) in the number of short term claimants consisted of a decrease of 12,053 (-11.5%) in the number of male short term claimants and a decrease of 8,840 (-9.4%) in female short term claimants. See table 6.

 

Live Register casual and part-time workers

There were 62,080 casual and part-time workers on the Live Register in July 2016, which represents 19.4% of the total Live Register.  This compares with 18.9% one year earlier when there were 68,799 casual and part-time workers on the Live Register.  In the year to July 2016 the number of casual and part-time workers decreased by 6,719 (-9.8%), with the number of males decreasing by 3,890 (-10.7%) and the number of females decreasing by 2,829 (-8.7%). See table 7.

 

 

Under 25 years25 years and over
July 201462082342433
July 201550316313312
July 201639870279424

Live Register age groups

In the year to July 2016 the number of persons aged 25 and over on the Live Register decreased by 33,888 (-10.8%), and the number of persons aged under 25 decreased by 10,446 (-20.8%).  Annual decreases in persons aged under 25 have occurred in all months since July 2010. The percentage of persons aged under 25 on the Live Register now stands at 12.5% for July 2016, down from 13.8% in July 2015 and 15.3% in July 2014. See tables 1(b) and 1(c) and figure 3.

 

Live Register new registrants

There were 27,462 new registrants on the Live Register in July 2016, consisting of 11,969 Jobseeker’s Benefit (JB) claims, 13,931 Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA) claims and 1,562 ‘Other Registrants’.  Males accounted for 43.5% (11,956) and females 56.5% (15,506) of all new registrants.  On average 2,989 male and 3,877 female new registrants joined the Live Register each week of the month.  The difference between the number of new registrants on the Live Register and the change in the total number on the Live Register is accounted for by closed claims and movements between schemes. See table 3.

 

Live Register last occupation held

Craft and related (17.5%) remained the largest occupational group1 on the Live Register in July, despite the fact that the number in the group fell over the year by 10,558 (-15.9%) to 55,891.  The second largest annual percentage decrease was in the Plant and machine operatives group, which decreased by 14.3%. The two smallest occupational groups in July were the Associate professional and technical and the Managers and administrators groups which accounted for 3.0% and 4.4% of the Live Register respectively. See table 5 and figure 4.

1 While the ‘No Occupation’ group is excluded from the analysis its subtotals are included in the relevant calculations presented in the text.

Broad Occupational GroupJuly 2014July 2015July 2016
1163111539813962
2258472391221495
311682102499528
4437754090837700
5783426644955891
6501124578340288
7449573952034403
8644395703248856
9465014277337097
10225492160420074
KEY  
1- Managers and administrators
2- Professional
3- Associate professional and technical
4- Clerical and secretarial
5- Craft and related
6- Personal and Protective service
7- Sales
8- Plant and machine operatives
9- Other occupation
10- No occupation

 

Live Register by other classifications

Other points which can be noted include:

  • An annual decrease of 36,410 (-13.2%) brought the total number of JA claimants to 238,771 in July 2016, while JB claimants decreased to 48,615 (-9.5%) over the same period.  As a result JA claimants account for 74.8% of all persons on the Live Register in July 2016 compared with 75.7% a year earlier. See table 1(a).
  • Annual decreases occurred in all of the eight NUTS 3 regions with the largest percentage decrease occurring in the South-West region (-14.8%) followed by the Mid-East region (-13.6%). See table 4.
  • In July, Irish nationals accounted for 83.5% (266,523) of the number of persons on the Live Register. Of the 52,771 non-Irish nationals, the largest constituent group on the Live Register was nationals from the EU15 to EU28 States (28,872), followed by the UK (11,864). See table 8.

 

Annex - Activation Programmes

Data up to the end of June 2016 on the number of people 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 – Number of persons availing of Activation Programmes table.

There were 62,517 people availing of these programmes in June 2016, which is a decrease of 7,551 persons (-10.8%) from the previous year, when there were 70,068 people in activation programmes. 

Persons on activation programmes are not counted as part of the monthly Live Register.

 

Table 1(a) Total persons on the Live Register
CategoryJuly 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual change
     
Males  
    JB Claims22,46619,62319,684+61-2,782
    JA Applications175,951151,776150,264-1,512-25,687
    Other Registrants11,86910,67810,589-89-1,280
    Total210,286182,077180,537-1,540-29,749
     
Females     
    JB Claims31,26925,19828,931+3,733-2,338
    JA Applications99,23087,61588,507+892-10,723
    Other Registrants22,84320,99321,319+326-1,524
    Total153,342133,806138,757+4,951-14,585
     
All Persons     
    JB Claims53,73544,82148,615+3,794-5,120
    JA Applications275,181239,391238,771-620-36,410
    Other Registrants34,71231,67131,908+237-2,804
    Total363,628315,883319,294+3,411-44,334
      
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Table 1(b) Persons under 25 years of age on the Live Register
CategoryJuly 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual change
      
Males     
    JB Claims1,3801,1501,108-42-272
    JA Applications27,34021,51721,411-106-5,929
    Other Registrants1099297+5-12
    Total28,82922,75922,616-143-6,213
      
Females     
    JB Claims1,6721,2061,366+160-306
    JA Applications19,66615,46815,778+310-3,888
    Other Registrants149106110+4-39
    Total21,48716,78017,254+474-4,233
      
All Persons     
    JB Claims3,0522,3562,474+118-578
    JA Applications47,00636,98537,189+204-9,817
    Other Registrants258198207+9-51
    Total50,31639,53939,870+331-10,446
      
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Table 1(c) Persons 25 years of age and over on the Live Register
CategoryJuly 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual change
      
Males     
    JB Claims21,08618,47318,576+103-2,510
    JA Applications148,611130,259128,853-1,406-19,758
    Other Registrants11,76010,58610,492-94-1,268
    Total181,457159,318157,921-1,397-23,536
      
Females     
    JB Claims29,59723,99227,565+3,573-2,032
    JA Applications79,56472,14772,729+582-6,835
    Other Registrants22,69420,88721,209+322-1,485
    Total131,855117,026121,503+4,477-10,352
      
All Persons     
    JB Claims50,68342,46546,141+3,676-4,542
    JA Applications228,175202,406201,582-824-26,593
    Other Registrants34,45431,47331,701+228-2,753
    Total313,312276,344279,424+3,080-33,888
      
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Table 2(a) Total persons on the Live Register - Unadjusted and Seasonally Adjusted
  Unadjusted Series Seasonally Adjusted Series1
 MonthMalesFemalesAll Persons MalesFemalesAll Persons
         
2014July241,300163,200404,500 233,700148,700382,400
August238,100160,300398,300 231,000147,900378,900
 September224,800145,200370,100 227,800146,800374,600
 October217,800140,900358,600 225,200146,000371,100
 November214,700137,900352,600 222,600144,700367,300
 December216,300139,800356,100 219,900143,800363,700
 
2015January218,700140,000358,700 217,600142,800360,400
 February215,900139,200355,100 214,400141,700356,100
March212,000136,600348,700 211,900139,400351,300
 April208,300135,200343,600 210,000139,800349,800
 May208,700137,000345,600 207,700139,600347,300
 June211,400145,100356,500 206,000138,900345,000
 July210,300153,300363,600 203,900139,300343,100
 August208,400150,700359,100 202,200138,600340,800
 September197,500135,300332,800 200,200137,000337,100
 October189,700131,100320,800 196,300136,100332,400
 November188,200128,400316,600 195,200135,000330,200
 December191,200130,400321,600 194,200134,100328,300
2016January191,800130,000321,800 190,700132,900323,500
 February190,200129,500319,700 188,800131,900320,700
 March186,300129,300315,600 185,900131,200317,100
 April181,500124,300305,800183,200129,300312,400
 May181,300125,700307,100180,500128,300308,800
 June182,100133,800315,900177,600127,800305,400
 July180,500138,800319,300 175,200125,200300,300
1 Table contains revised figures.
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Table 2(b) Persons under 25 years of age on the Live Register - Unadjusted and Seasonally Adjusted
  Unadjusted Series Seasonally Adjusted Series1
 MonthMalesFemalesAll Persons MalesFemalesAll Persons
         
2014July35,90026,20062,100 33,40023,10056,500
 August35,40026,10061,500 32,80022,80055,600
 September32,10023,00055,100 31,90022,30054,200
 October30,10021,10051,200 31,30021,80053,100
 November29,00019,90048,900 30,90021,50052,400
 December28,60019,30047,900 30,20021,10051,300
 
2015January29,30020,00049,300 29,80020,90050,600
 February28,80019,70048,500 29,00020,40049,400
 March28,00019,00047,100 28,50020,00048,500
 April27,30018,50045,900 28,10019,80047,900
 May27,80019,30047,100 27,60019,60047,200
 June28,80020,70049,500 27,20019,10046,300
 July28,80021,50050,300 26,80018,90045,700
 August28,60021,30049,900 26,40018,60045,000
 September26,30018,80045,200 26,20018,20044,400
 October24,10017,00041,100 25,20017,70042,800
 November23,30016,10039,400 24,90017,50042,300
 December23,20015,60038,700 24,50017,10041,600
2016January23,70016,10039,800 24,10016,80040,900
 February23,70016,10039,800 23,80016,60040,500
 March22,70015,60038,400 23,10016,30039,500
 April22,00014,90036,900 22,60016,00038,600
 May22,20015,50037,700 22,10015,70037,800
 June22,80016,80039,500 21,50015,50037,000
 July22,60017,30039,900 21,00015,20036,200
1 Table contains revised figures.     
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Table 2(c) Persons 25 years of age and over on the Live Register - Unadjusted and Seasonally Adjusted
  Unadjusted Series Seasonally Adjusted Series1
 MonthMalesFemalesAll Persons MalesFemalesAll Persons
         
2014July205,400137,000342,400 200,300125,600326,000
August202,600134,200336,800 198,200125,100323,300
 September192,700122,200314,900 195,800124,500320,400
 October187,700119,800307,400 193,800124,200318,000
 November185,700118,000303,800 191,700123,200314,900
 December187,800120,400308,200 189,700122,700312,300
 
2015January189,300120,000309,400 187,800121,900309,700
 February187,100119,500306,600 185,400121,300306,700
March184,000117,600301,600 183,400119,400302,800
 April181,000116,700297,700 181,900120,100301,900
 May180,900117,600298,500 180,100120,000300,100
 June182,600124,400307,000 178,800119,800298,600
 July181,500131,900313,300 177,100120,400297,400
 August179,800129,400309,200 175,800120,000295,900
 September171,200116,400287,600 174,000118,700292,800
 October165,600114,100279,700 171,200118,400289,600
 November164,900112,300277,200 170,300117,500287,800
 December168,100114,800282,900 169,600117,100286,700
2016January168,000114,000282,000 166,600116,000282,600
 February166,600113,400279,900 164,900115,300280,200
 March163,600113,600277,200 162,700114,900277,600
April159,500109,300268,800160,600113,300273,800
May159,200110,200269,400158,500112,600271,000
June159,300117,000276,300156,100112,300268,400
July157,900121,500279,400154,100110,000264,100
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Table 3 Summary of flows1 on and off the Live Register
   Males Females
  Number of Weeks New Regis-trations Average Weekly Change  New Regis-trations Average Weekly Change
  Live RegisterOutflow (derived) Live RegisterOutflow (derived)
   
JB Claims           
2015July522,4665,8055,837-6 31,269     11,3775,404+1,195
 August421,7003,6084,374-192 29,178     3,9946,085-523
 September419,4803,9456,165-555 21,441     4,23511,972-1,934
 October519,1625,2815,599-64 21,719     5,9725,694+56
 November419,6875,0164,491+131 20,993     5,7066,432-182
 December521,6065,3083,389+384 23,035     5,3393,297+408
 
2016January422,6706,8815,817+266 22,832     7,2787,481-51
 February422,7115,1115,070+10 22,839     5,6535,646+2
March521,8645,0285,875-169 23,6696,2915,461+166
April 420,3884,6216,097-369 20,7295,6218,561-735
May419,6753,6394,352-178 20,7444,4074,392+4
June519,6235,1175,169-10 25,1989,4344,980+891
July419,6844,0864,025+1528,9317,8834,150+933
           
JA Applications           
2015July5175,95110,92211,872-190 99,2309,1677,348+364
 August4174,8758,0949,170-269 98,8325,7146,112-100
 September4166,5969,33817,617-2,070 92,1706,69613,358-1,666
 October5159,19810,86718,265-1,480 87,9057,44111,706-853
 November4157,2259,11311,086-493 86,1605,8147,559-436
 December5158,2918,2407,174+213 85,9144,6674,913-49
 
2016January4157,8778,9329,346-104 86,0006,0785,992+22
 February4156,4818,3469,742-349 85,5585,6166,058-111
March5153,4598,37111,393-604 84,5795,7936,772-196
April 4150,2617,28110,479-800 82,8124,9896,756-442
May4150,8856,9356,311+156 84,2745,0303,568+366
June5151,77610,0039,112+178 87,6158,6145,273+668
July4150,2647,4428,954-37888,5076,4895,597+223
           
Other Registrants           
2015July511,869569715-29 22,8431,6341,190+89
 August411,824368413-11 22,667719895-44
 September411,471396749-88 21,6438071,831-256
 October511,307579743-33 21,5031,1051,245-28
 November411,242456521-16 21,2799351,159-56
 December511,322498418+16 21,448840671+34
 
2016January411,209499612-28 21,2149241,158-59
 February411,056368521-38 21,078795931-34
March511,007475524-10 21,022918974-11
April 410,863340484-36 20,7328191,109-73
May410,775314402-22 20,706622648-7
June510,678468565-19 20,9931,250963+57
July410,589428517-2221,3191,134808+82
1 Flow analysis: inflows and outflows published in this table do not take account of inter-scheme activity within the Live Register. For example,
if a claimant exhausts his/her entitlement to JB and opens a new JA claim this is counted as an outflow in JB and an inflow in JA. 
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Table 4 Persons on the Live Register classified by region
NUTS2 and NUTS3 Regions1July 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual changeUnder 25 years25 years & over
        
Males       
      Border, Midland and Western65,24556,86056,497-363-8,7487,42649,071
      Border29,85225,92025,752-168-4,1003,44122,311
      Midland16,71414,69914,624-75-2,0902,06112,563
      West18,67916,24116,121-120-2,5581,92414,197
        
      Southern and Eastern145,041125,217124,040-1,177-21,00115,190108,850
      Dublin52,45146,15945,714-445-6,7375,52840,186
      Mid-East19,92516,68616,588-98-3,3372,14014,448
      Mid-West17,35515,12615,099-27-2,2561,96413,135
      South-East28,16724,34624,120-226-4,0473,18320,937
      South-West27,14322,90022,519-381-4,6242,37520,144
      Total210,286182,077180,537-1,540-29,74922,616157,921
        
Females       
      Border, Midland and Western49,46043,36044,860+1,500-4,6005,92138,939
      Border22,29619,41220,056+644-2,2402,74117,315
      Midland12,74311,42911,837+408-9061,80010,037
      West14,42112,51912,967+448-1,4541,38011,587
        
      Southern and Eastern103,88290,44693,897+3,451-9,98511,33382,564
      Dublin35,27230,49231,964+1,472-3,3083,65528,309
      Mid-East15,73413,74714,210+463-1,5241,65512,555
      Mid-West12,98511,30511,650+345-1,3351,62410,026
      South-East20,29818,19518,753+558-1,5452,59716,156
      South-West19,59316,70717,320+613-2,2731,80215,518
      Total153,342133,806138,757+4,951-14,58517,254121,503
        
All Persons       
      Border, Midland and Western114,705100,220101,357+1,137-13,34813,34788,010
      Border52,14845,33245,808+476-6,3406,18239,626
      Midland29,45726,12826,461+333-2,9963,86122,600
      West33,10028,76029,088+328-4,0123,30425,784
        
      Southern and Eastern248,923215,663217,937+2,274-30,98626,523191,414
      Dublin87,72376,65177,678+1,027-10,0459,18368,495
      Mid-East35,65930,43330,798+365-4,8613,79527,003
      Mid-West30,34026,43126,749+318-3,5913,58823,161
      South-East48,46542,54142,873+332-5,5925,78037,093
      South-West46,73639,60739,839+232-6,8974,17735,662
      Total363,628315,883319,294+3,411-44,33439,870279,424
1 The composition of the regions is described in the Background Notes.
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Table 5 Persons on the Live Register classified by last held occupation
 July 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual changeUnder 25 years25 years & over
Broad occupational group
        
Males       
Managers and administrators8,7167,8777,914+37-8022327,682
Professional9,7548,4858,748+263-1,0065948,154
Associate professional and technical 5,8165,2845,334+50-4825794,755
Clerical and secretarial10,1298,7349,175+441-9548388,337
Craft and related 59,45450,15449,017-1,137-10,4373,21545,802
Personal and protective service14,55612,70412,510-194-2,0461,25111,259
Sales15,19313,01612,900-116-2,2932,9719,929
Plant and machine operatives42,05436,19235,632-560-6,4224,02631,606
Other occupation31,80627,77127,423-348-4,3834,41023,013
No occupation112,80811,86011,884+24-9244,5007,384
Total 210,286182,077180,537-1,540-29,74922,616157,921
        
Females       
Managers and administrators6,6825,9886,048+60-6341545,894
Professional14,15811,20512,747+1,542-1,41171312,034
Associate professional and technical 4,4334,1704,194+24-2393243,870
Clerical and secretarial30,77925,33228,525+3,193-2,2541,26427,261
Craft and related 6,9956,8086,874+66-1218596,015
Personal and protective service31,22727,40427,778+374-3,4493,43224,346
Sales24,32721,85521,503-352-2,8243,60517,898
Plant and machine operatives14,97813,30713,224-83-1,7541,77311,451
Other occupation10,9679,6649,674+10-1,2932,1857,489
No occupation18,7968,0738,190+117-6062,9455,245
Total153,342133,806138,757+4,951-14,58517,254121,503
        
All Persons       
Managers and administrators15,39813,86513,962+97-1,43638613,576
Professional23,91219,69021,495+1,805-2,4171,30720,188
Associate professional and technical 10,2499,4549,528+74-7219038,625
Clerical and secretarial40,90834,06637,700+3,634-3,2082,10235,598
Craft and related 66,44956,96255,891-1,071-10,5584,07451,817
Personal and protective service45,78340,10840,288+180-5,4954,68335,605
Sales39,52034,87134,403-468-5,1176,57627,827
Plant and machine operatives57,03249,49948,856-643-8,1765,79943,057
Other occupation42,77337,43537,097-338-5,6766,59530,502
No occupation121,60419,93320,074+141-1,5307,44512,629
Total 363,628315,883319,294+3,411-44,33439,870279,424
        
1 Includes those who never worked and those who have no stated occupation.
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Table 6 Persons on the Live Register classified by duration of continuous registration
 July 2015June 2016July 2016Monthly changeAnnual changeUnder 25 years25 years & over
Duration
        
Males
   Less than one year104,56592,65392,512-141-12,05314,83377,679
   One year or more105,72189,42488,025-1,399-17,6967,78380,242
   Total210,286182,077180,537-1,540-29,74922,616157,921
       
Females       
   Less than one year93,64179,39884,801+5,403-8,84012,24272,559
   One year or more59,70154,40853,956-452-5,7455,01248,944
   Total153,342133,806138,757+4,951-14,58517,254121,503
       
All Persons       
   Less than one year198,206172,051177,313+5,262-20,89327,075150,238
   One year or more165,422143,832141,981-1,851-23,44112,795129,186
   Total363,628315,883319,294+3,411-44,33439,870279,424
        
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Table 7 Casual and part-time workers on the Live Register
   MalesMonthly change FemalesMonthly change All PersonsMonthly change
          
2014July 40,562-521 35,168-310 75,730-831
August 39,709-853 34,417-751 74,126-1,604
 September 38,481-1,228 33,263-1,154 71,744-2,382
 October 38,275-206 33,177-86 71,452-292
 November 38,714+439 33,563+386 72,277+825
 December 38,681-33 33,681+118 72,362+85
 
2015January 38,549-132 33,536-145 72,085-277
 February 38,443-106 33,712+176 72,155+70
March 38,119-324 33,285-427 71,404-751
 April 37,401-718 32,780-505 70,181-1,223
 May 36,899-502 32,360-420 69,259-922
 June 36,854-45 32,611+251 69,465+206
 July 36,457-397 32,342-269 68,799-666
 August 35,795-662 31,693-649 67,488-1,311
 September 34,813-982 30,862-831 65,675-1,813
 October 34,418-395 30,766-96 65,184-491
 November 34,729+311 30,949+183 65,678+494
 December 34,737 + 8 30,941- 8 65,6780
2016January 34,470-267 30,800-141 65,270-408
 February 34,828+358 31,152+352 65,980+710
 March 34,417-411 31,060-92 65,477-503
 April 33,831-586 30,552-508 64,383-1,094
 May 33,566-265 30,289-263 63,855-528
 June 33,504-62 30,244-45 63,748-107
 July 32,567-937 29,513-731 62,080-1,668
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Table 8 Persons on the Live Register classified by nationality grouping 
  Nationality grouping 
  Non-Irish nationals     
   EU15 excl. IRL & UKEU15 to EU28 States     
United Kingdom  Non-Irish nationalsIrish nationalsAll Persons
  Other  
         
2014July15,1733,71236,39911,656 66,940337,575404,515
August14,9853,67435,44511,280 65,384332,941398,325
 September14,0753,49433,84310,099 61,511308,539370,050
 October13,6873,46033,3249,420 59,891298,739358,630
 November13,5493,64133,5789,133 59,901292,746352,647
 December13,6323,64434,0909,074 60,440295,672356,112
 
2015January13,6653,68835,2198,916 61,488297,184358,672
 February13,5373,60135,1668,706 61,010294,114355,124
March13,3143,38934,4468,710 59,859288,817348,676
 April 13,0543,30633,6708,671 58,701284,850343,551
 May13,0413,30033,1388,920 58,399287,234345,633
 June13,3513,38133,1959,419 59,346297,174356,520
 July13,4633,41832,6599,433 58,973304,655363,628
 August13,2643,39532,2169,431 58,306300,770359,076
 September12,4123,21830,6708,844 55,144277,657332,801
 October11,9913,15029,9668,280 53,387267,407320,794
 November11,8753,29430,2118,158 53,538263,048316,586
 December12,0683,36630,8878,127 54,448267,168321,616
2016January12,0873,43031,3988,010 54,925266,877321,802
 February12,0283,39031,5908,138 55,146264,577319,723
 March11,8763,26231,0147,984 54,136261,464315,600
 April11,5353,22230,0667,911 52,734253,051305,785
 May11,5663,21729,4978,267 52,547254,512307,059
 June11,8333,32229,3438,693 53,191262,692315,883
 July11,8643,31428,8728,721 52,771266,523319,294
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Table 9 Live Register Compositional Analysis
 July 2013July 2014July 2015July 2016
  % of total % of total % of total % of total
 NumberNumberNumberNumber
Sex        
Males270,30361.2241,31759.7210,28657.8180,53756.5
Females171,67338.8163,19840.3153,34242.2138,75743.5
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
        
Age        
Under 25 years72,53416.462,08215.350,31613.839,87012.5
25 years and over369,44283.6342,43384.7313,31286.2279,42487.5
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
        
Scheme        
JB Claims81,71718.559,41314.753,73514.848,61515.2
JA Applications325,84673.7308,65176.3275,18175.7238,77174.8
Other Registrants34,4137.836,4519.034,7129.531,90810.0
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
Duration of Continuous Registration        
Less than one year244,40555.3215,84553.4198,20654.5177,31355.5
One year or more197,57144.7188,67046.6165,42245.5141,98144.5
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
Nationality Grouping        
Irish Nationals367,90783.2337,57583.5304,65583.8266,52383.5
Non-Irish Nationals74,06916.866,94016.558,97316.252,77116.5
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
NUTS2 Regions1        
Border, Midland and Western138,65931.4127,33131.5114,70531.5101,35731.7
Southern and Eastern303,31768.6277,18468.5248,92368.5217,93768.3
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
Last Held Occupation        
Managers and administrators17,6214.016,3114.015,3984.213,9624.4
Professional28,3736.425,8476.423,9126.621,4956.7
Associate professional and technical12,7362.911,6822.910,2492.89,5283.0
Clerical and secretarial46,66810.643,77510.840,90811.237,70011.8
Craft and related 92,80021.078,34219.466,44918.355,89117.5
Personal and protective service52,86612.050,11212.445,78312.640,28812.6
Sales48,65411.044,95711.139,52010.934,40310.8
Plant and machine operatives70,47315.964,43915.957,03215.748,85615.3
Other occupation49,57111.246,50111.542,77311.837,09711.6
No occupation222,2145.022,5495.621,6045.920,0746.3
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
Casual Status        
No casual and part-time work354,55780.2328,78581.3294,82981.1257,21480.6
Casual and part-time work87,41919.875,73018.768,79918.962,08019.4
Total441,976100.0404,515100.0363,628100.0319,294100.0
         
1 The composition of the regions is described in the Background Notes.
2 Includes those who never worked and those who have no stated occupation.
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Annex Table A1 - Number of persons availing of Activation Programmes  
 June 2015May 2016June 2016
Back to Work Schemes   
Back to Work allowance scheme - Employee strand1000
Back to Work Enterprise allowance scheme -self employed strand11,62111,55011,559
Short-term Enterprise Allowance2 490424423
Total Back to Work payments 12,11111,97411,982
   
Other Activation Programmes   
DSP Part-time Job Incentive378439426
TUS - Community Work Placement Initiative (2011) 8,0017,9487,907
JobBridge (2011)5,3383,8363,390
Gateway (2013)32,2081,9671,806
Total Other Activation Programmes15,92514,19013,529
       
Community Employment Schemes (excluding Supervisors) 23,11222,84422,822
   
FAS (Solas) Full Time Training for Unemployed People47,5026,6876,054
       
Back to Education Courses   
Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)5N/AN/AN/A
Back to Education Allowance (BTEA)66,4189,3453,130
Total Back to Education Courses 11,41814,3458,130
       
Total Activation Programmes70,06870,04062,517
    
1 This scheme was closed to new applications from 1st May 2009.
2 This scheme was introduced from 1st May 2009. It provides immediate support for someone in receipt of Jobseekers
Benefit who wants to start a business.   
3 Gateway Scheme included from December 2013.   
4 Specific Skills Training/Local Training initiative/Traineeship/Return to Work. 
5 VTOS figures are estimated at 5,000 each year.
6 BTEA figures include all schemes but participants from JA & JB are not entitled to BTEA during the summer holidays.
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Background Notes

Source and scope of the Live Register

The Live Register is compiled from returns made for each local office to the Central Statistics Office by the Department of Social Protection.  It comprises of persons under 65 years of age in the following classes:

  • All Claimants for Jobseeker’s Benefit (JB) excluding systematic short-time workers
  • Applicants for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA) excluding smallholders/farm assists and other self-employed persons
  • Other registrants including applicants for credited Social Welfare contributions but excluding those directly involved in an industrial dispute.

The Live Register excludes those claimants on Jobseeker schemes who are 65 years of age and over. There was no change to this exclusion criterion with the removal of the State Pension (Transition) Scheme from 1st January 2014. Persons aged 65 years can remain on a Jobseeker scheme up to their next birthday but are not included in the Live Register.

 

Reference Period

The reference periods for the Live Register results are as follows:

July 2016 – 3rd July to 30th July 2016
July 2015 – 27th June to 31st July 2015

From May 2015 (reference period) the reference period refers to the week of the last Thursday in the month, previously the reference period referred to the week of the last Friday in the month.

The Live Register is not designed to measure unemployment.  It includes part-time (those who work up to three days a week), seasonal and casual workers entitled to Jobseekers Allowance and or Jobseekers Benefit.  Monthly unemployment is measured by the Monthly Unemployment release and quarterly unemployment is measured by the Quarterly National Household Survey (formerly the Annual Labour Force Survey).

 

Standardised unemployment rates

The Standardised Unemployment Rate (SUR) series, previously in Table 3, has been discontinued from May 2015. It has been replaced by the Monthly Unemployment series, which is published two days before the Live Register.

 

QNHS

The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), which began in September 1997, replaced the Labour Force Survey and provides quarterly estimates of the unemployment rate. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis.  As of the first quarter 2009 the QNHS is now undertaken on a calendar quarter basis.

The calendar reference quarters for survey results are:
Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December.

 

Seasonal Adjustment

Since January 2011 the seasonal adjustment of the Live Register is completed by applying the X-12-ARIMA model, developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. Seasonal adjustment is conducted using the indirect approach, where each individual series is independently adjusted (male under 25 years, female under 25 years, male 25 years and over and female 25 years and over). To preserve consistency between the individual and aggregate series, the series for gender, age group and total Live Register are then created from these four component series.

 The X-12 ARIMA method has the X-11 moving averages process at its core, but builds on this by providing options for pre-treating the series using a regARIMA approach for prior adjustment and series extension. In essence this methodology will estimate seasonal factors while taking account of temporary changes, outliers, level shifts and calendar effects (e.g timing of Easter).

All Live Register series are updated monthly with the latest three years of seasonally adjusted data as part of the concurrent approach. The comprehensive annual review contains revisions to the entire series. Revisions to the series are typically very minor in scale.

For additional information on the use of X-12-ARIMA see detailed note in the January 2011 Live Register release.

 

Jobseeker’s Benefit Duration

Prior to 19 January 2004 Jobseeker’s Benefit was payable for 15 months (390 days).

From 19 January 2004, Jobseeker’s Benefit could be paid for a maximum of 15 months (390 days) to people who had at least 260 paid PRSI contributions.  Jobseeker’s Benefit could be paid for a maximum of 12 months (312 days) to people who had less than 260 paid contributions (Refers to new claims).

From 15 October 2008, Jobseeker’s Benefit could be paid for a maximum of 12 months (312 days) to people who had at least 260 paid PRSI contributions.  Jobseeker’s Benefit could be paid for a maximum of 9 months (234 days) to people who had less than 260 paid contributions.

As of 3 April 2013, Jobseeker’s Benefit can be paid for a maximum of 9 months (234 days) to people who have 260 paid PRSI contributions. Jobseeker’s Benefit can be paid for a maximum of 6 months (156 days) to people who have less than 260 paid contributions (Refers to new claims).

Claimants getting Jobseeker’s Benefit for 6 months or more on 3 April 2013 (or 3 months for people with fewer than 260 contributions) will not be affected.

 

One-Parent Family Payment (OFP)

The One-Parent Family Payment is a social welfare payment for men and women who are younger than 66 and bring up children without the support of a partner and meet certain other criteria. Claimants on this scheme are not counted as part of the Live Register.

From July 2013 new rules came into operation reducing the age limits for the One-Parent Family Payment. This means that some people no longer qualify for the payment and may avail of other schemes or supports.

As a consequence, approximately 2,800 people in July 2013, 1,300 people in July 2014 and 2,786 people in July 2015, previously receiving the One-Parent Family Payment, made a claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JA) and will therefore appear on the Live Register.

For information on the age-related changes to the OFP scheme from July 2013, please see the following link to the Department of Social Protection website:

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/278_One-Parent-Family-Payment.aspx

 

Live Register Flows

Live Register flows data is sourced from information collected by the Department of Social Protection.  The aggregate of new registrations for each month is used in conjunction with the net change over the same period to calculate the outflow from the register.  A new registration is defined as anybody on the Live Register in a particular month who was not on it the previous month.  Inflows and outflows published in this release do not take account of inter-scheme activity within the Live Register.  For example, if a claimant exhausts his/her entitlement to JB and opens a new JA claim this is counted as an outflow in JB and an inflow in JA.

 

 

Live Register Area Analysis

The basis of the area analysis in Live Register statistics is the Department of Social Protection local office of registration.  The areas served by Local Employment Offices do not correspond to specific geographic boundaries.  Therefore, registrants at a given local office do not necessarily come from a particular region or area which can be precisely delineated e.g. data for the Cork City Local Offices of Registration refers to all persons signing on in Cork City but may include persons not resident in Cork City.  The latest available Live Register data by Province, County and Local Office of Registration will be released on the CSO website through the CSO StatBank one day after the publication of this release, see link here.

 

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

The Regional classifications are based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat.  The NUTS3 regions correspond to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994.  The NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, are groupings of the NUTS3 regions.

Border, Midland and Western NUTS2 Region      Southern and Eastern NUTS2 Region          
Border Cavan Dublin Dublin City
  Donegal   Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
  Leitrim   Fingal
  Louth   South Dublin
  Monaghan    
  Sligo Mid-East Kildare
      Meath
Midland Laois   Wicklow
  Longford Mid-West Clare
  Offaly   Limerick City
  Westmeath   Limerick County
      North Tipperary
West Galway City    
  Galway County South-East Carlow
  Mayo   Kilkenny
  Roscommon   South Tipperary
      Waterford City
      Waterford County
      Wexford
       
    South-West Cork City
      Cork County
      Kerry

 

Occupations

Live Register occupational data is sourced from information collected by the Department of Social Protection on the most recent occupation of claimants when they sign on the Live Register.  The classification used is based on the UK Standard Occupational Classification (SOC).  “No occupation” is an additional category and includes those who have never worked and those who have no stated occupation.

 

Age by Duration Analysis

Detailed tables relating to regional and scheme data are available on the CSO website through the CSO Main Data Dissemination Service, StatBank on a bi-annual basis, at the following link: Click here

 

Casual and part-time workers

The casual and part-time workers’ figure is based on data supplied by the Department of Social Protection.  People may apply for Jobseeker’s Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance if they only work for part of a week and be included on the Live Register.

 

Nationality

Data in the nationality grouping table is sourced from information collected by the Department of Social Protection on the nationality of claimants when they first sign on the Live Register.

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