Labour Force Survey data for Scotland indicate that the trend in the employment rate is broadly flat, and the rate in the latest period is not significantly different from a year ago. The trend in the unemployment rate is decreasing, but the rate in the latest period is not significantly different from a year ago.
Data for the three months to August 2006 show the seasonally adjusted employment rate at 75.1 per cent, down 0.4 percentage points on a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.8 per cent, down 0.4 percentage points on a year earlier.
The claimant count was up in the year to September 2006.
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