{"id":83480,"date":"2017-08-16T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a2c6e47b030db67cbe14311435ab6f05"},"modified":"2017-08-16T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:05:41","slug":"news-story-august-labour-market-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83480","title":{"rendered":"News story: August labour market statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Responding to today\u2019s labour market statistics, published by the Office for National Statistics, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good news that Scotland\u2019s employment has reached a record high. Unemployment is at a near historic low, at 3.9 per cent, which is a trend I hope to see continue. The UK Government will continue to work to strengthen Scotland\u2019s economy, and I encourage the Scottish Government to continue to use their economic levers to increase Scotland\u2019s prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tEmployment in Scotland increased by 30,000 over the quarter, and increased by 22,000 over the year to stand at 2,650,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tThe Scottish employment rate increased over the quarter to stand at 75.2 per cent. The rate is now at a record high and is above the UK average of 75.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tUnemployment in Scotland fell by 12,000 over the quarter and is down 34,000 over the year.  The level now stands at 107,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tAt 3.9 per cent, the Scottish unemployment rate is below that for the UK as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tEconomic Activity increased by 18,000 over the quarter and now stands at 2,757,000. The Economic Activity rate increased over the quarter to stand at 78.2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tIn July 2017, the number of people out of work and claiming out-of-work benefit &#8211; Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (JSA) and Universal Credit (UC) &#8211; was 81,500, down 100 over the month. The claimant count level is now 3,900 higher compared to one year ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2019s employment has reached a record high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}