UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. INDUSTRIES, INSURED under the UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE in JULY of each YEAR from 1923 to 1925.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

No. 69.-PERCENTAGE NUMBERS of INSURED WORKPEOPLE RECORDED and NORTHERN IRELAND at the end of JANUARY and

(a) The figures in this Table include in addition to work people wholly unemployed, those who were not at work on the dates to which the figures relate, because they were suspended, stood off or on short time, and whose unemployment books were lodged at Employment Exchanges, &c.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. as UNEMPLOYED(a), CLASSIFIED by INDUSTRIES, in GREAT BRITAIN JULY of each YEAR, from July, 1923, to January, 1926.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. No. 70.-RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS of the UNEMPLOYMENT Fund from 8th November, 1920, to 5th July, 1925.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics.)

(a) Contributions of Service Departments (Admiralty. War Office, and Air Ministry).

(b) Compensation for the abolition of refunds at the age of 60.

(c) The apportioned shares of the debt attributable to Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State are excluded from these figures as from the respective dates of severance, viz., 31st December 1921, and 31st March, 1922.

EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES.

No. 71.-REGISTRATIONS at EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES, VACANCIES NOTIFIED and VACANCIES FILLED.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics.)

NOTE.-The figures in this table include Post Office Christmas Workers, but do not include casual workers such as dock labourers and coal porters. In 1925 the number of persons for whom temporary Post Office work at Christmas was obtained through Employment Exchanges was 28,260.

(a) Excluding Irish Free State.

(b) For a period of four weeks at the end of 1925 the figures do not include registrations of persons "Temporarily stopped."

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