QHNS Labour Market Headline Indicators Q32011 - Interactive

The CSO have released headline labour market figures derived from the QHNS Q3 Survey results.
Overall the data reports an increase in unemployment of 15,800(5.3%) in the year to Q3, of this increase male unemployment increased by 4,700 (2.3%) and females by 11,100 (11.4%).
The annual reduction of 46,000 (-2.5%) in employment was comprised of a decrease of 26,100 or 2.6% in the number of men in employment, while the number of women in employment decreased by 19,800 or 2.3%.
The CSO reports that 56% of the decline in the size of the labour market is attributable to a decline in participation rate from 61.2% to 60.4% over the year representing 17,000.
The interactive table below provides headline figures along with numbers employed by NACE economic sector the last three years, Analyse and extract and the data below.

View the full CSO report here.