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Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

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3.1 At work - nationwide<br />

The labour force <strong>in</strong> April <strong>2011</strong> had grown by 122,705 people to 2,232,203 - a 5.8 per cent<br />

<strong>in</strong>crease s<strong>in</strong>ce 2006.<br />

Among the labour force, the numbers of those at work decl<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the 5 years by over 6 per<br />

cent to 1,807,369 while the number of people look<strong>in</strong>g for their first job rose by over 16 per<br />

cent to 34,166.<br />

The number of people who were unemployed <strong>in</strong>creased significantly from 150,084 to 390,677.<br />

When comb<strong>in</strong>ed with people look<strong>in</strong>g for their first job the total number of people who were<br />

out of work stood at 424,843 <strong>in</strong> April <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

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