Unemployment and Employment Insurance
  Unemployed Unemployment rate Beneficiaries
receiving benefits
  Men Women
S.A. S.A. S.A. S.A. Annual percent change
Calendar year
2006
07
08
09
10
11
10thous.
275
257
265
336
334
284
%
4.1
3.9
4.0
5.1
5.1
4.5
%
4.3
3.9
4.1
5.3
5.4
4.8
%
3.9
3.7
3.8
4.8
4.6
4.1
%
-6.9
-3.9
-1.6
51.5
-19.5
-8.0
Apr-11
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan-12
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
293
285
286
287
271
272
290
292
295
305
298
297
299
289
4.7
4.6
4.6
4.6
4.4
4.2
4.4
4.5
4.5
4.6
4.5
4.5
4.6
4.4
5.0
4.8
4.7
4.8
4.5
4.5
4.8
4.8
4.9
4.9
4.7
4.9
4.8
4.5
4.3
4.3
4.4
4.3
4.1
3.8
4.0
4.0
4.0
4.4
4.2
4.1
4.2
4.3
-13.0
-1.9
-2.4
-4.0
-1.2
-4.0
-3.0
-4.4
-5.0
-4.2
-3.0
-7.4
-10.9
-6.0
Source MIC "Labour Force Survey" MHLW "Employment Insurance Statistics"
NOTES :Unemployed and unemployment rate of annual data for 2011 and monthly data for Mar.-Aug.2011 are not included the data of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.




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