12.2% unemployment rate where I live! What is the unemploment rate where you live?

[HappinessNow]

12.2% unemployment where I live! What is the unemployment rate where you live?

(Note: please keep this topic on economics and Not politics)

[Omnios]

Its 6.3% in Oshawa Ontario Canada.
8.7% for the province of Ontario Canada.

It just jumped and or is jumping as one of the car plants just shutdown. We had a GM truck plant and we have a GM car plant. The truck plant closed down and it is estimated that 7 local jobs will be lost for every 1 GM job lost.

[sunchiqua]

12.3% @ Latvia

[OutOfReach]

10.9% in my county, highest percent since ~1992/3

[Giant Speck]

United States military: 0% unemployment. :p

[Tibuda]

Unemployment here is 6.1% ("taxa de desocupação") (http://ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/indicadores/trabalhoerendimento/pme_nova/pme_200907mg_01.shtm).

Off-topic: you make a lot of threads.

[Whiffle]

8.2% here in Texas, 6% here in my county. This state has a great economy, no income tax, and is very small business friendly.

[sena_akada]

0-100%

[Nevon]

That depends entirely on how you calculate unemployment. What about people under 18? Old people? Sick people? What about newly arrived refugees?

[wojox]

11% here in Sunny Florida

[johnl]

Unemployment rate, Boulder County, CO

6.6% of the labor force (Not seasonally adjusted) Jul 2009

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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[the8thstar]

11% in France in 2010 according to OECD (http://www.oecd.org/home/0,3305,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

[SuperSonic4]

10.6% in the West Midlands, England although this article is dated August 2009 so it will be higher but today's figures are proving harder to find than usual

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8197479.stm

[Muffinabus]

9.2% in Mexico, Missouri as of July 2009.

[scragar]

7.9% for the UK(Actually that figure is only accurate up until the end of last month, so could be off a little).

[RiceMonster]

Its 6.3% in Oshawa Ontario Canada.
8.7% for the province of Ontario Canada.

It just jumped and or is jumping as one of the car plants just shutdown. We had a GM truck plant and we have a GM car plant. The truck plant closed down and it is estimated that 7 local jobs will be lost for every 1 GM job lost.

You're from the Shwa eh? I live near Oshawa, so the employment rate would be around the same.

[Warpnow]

That depends entirely on how you calculate unemployment. What about people under 18? Old people? Sick people? What about newly arrived refugees?

The real flaw in unemployment calculations is the discouraged worker who has been out of work for so long he is no longer actively looking. He is unemployed by conversational standards, but not economic ones. He is not counted.

And underemployment is generally as dangerous as unemployment.

[RabbitWho]

Ireland - 12 %
Czech Republic - 8%

What's really funny, is that google is about 5 years out of date and it automatically throws you back the answer as being 4.5%

Hundreds of companies have gone out of business here in the last year and a half . Here's the most recent article I could find: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-ireland-economy,0,1887238.story?track=rss
12.4 as of September second.

That's why I live and work in the Czech Republic. Almost everyone I know in Ireland is out of work or about to loose their job.



That depends entirely on how you calculate unemployment. What about people under 18? Old people? Sick people? What about newly arrived refugees?

They don't count. Unemployed statistics count people who are of working age and physically and mentally capable of working but who do not have jobs.

What on earth are they teaching you in school!?

[ericmc783]

Cleveland, Ohio. 9.3% as of July 2009.

For the entire state of Ohio: 11.1%.

And for the US: 9.6%

[Bölvaður]

Record breaking unemployment numbers where I live.
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=128842&stc=1&d=1253143622

The % is expected to drop as when students turn to their educational institutions there will be great room for those that are unemployed to seek their jobs.
Students over 18 and didn't get a job over the summer can register as unemployed now. So that might be pushing the numbers up also. Convicts, handicapped people, and people that are inbetween jobs are also counted as unemployed from what I understand... which isn't much when it comes to this sort of things.

I hope it will return to normal soon.

[pt123]

Australia - 5.8%
My State - NSW - 6.1% it fell by .3% in a month
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/06/2647719.htm

The GFC hasn't impacted Australia much.

[HappinessNow]

Australia - 5.8%
My State - NSW - 6.1% it fell by .3% in a month
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/06/2647719.htm

The GFC hasn't impacted Australia much.5.8% is very low comparatively speaking.

[fourtyseven]

25.5% here.

[sim-value]

4,2%

Before Crisis we had Full-Employment (atleast thats what THEY said :P)

[gn2]

The most recent figures on my local council's website shows 1.4% unemployment.

[artir]

Canary Islands (Spain): 25% percent

[-grubby]

8.8% in Washington.

[Mark76]

UK: 4.2% (unemployment rates by gender are: 5.9% male and 2.4% female)
East Midlands Region: 4.1% (5.7% & 2.4%)
Leicestershire (inc' Leicester): 4.3% (5.8% & 2.6%)
Leicestershire (exc' Leicester): 3.1% (4.1% & 1.9%)
Leicester city UA: 6.8% (9.5% & 4.0%)

I think Leicester has the worst unemployment rate of the three major urban centres in the East Midlands :(

[HappinessNow]

25.5% here.


Canary Islands (Spain): 25% percent

...and I thought 12.2% was high.

[coldReactive]

8.4% or so, in Wisconsin.

[KiwiNZ]

Currently at 6% in New Zealand

[jocheem67]

6%

Holland

Pretty low compared to the other EU countries.

[Kimm]

About 8% in Sweden

[moster]

That depends entirely on how you calculate unemployment. What about people under 18? Old people? Sick people? What about newly arrived refugees?

What are the rate of work capable people sitting at home doing nothing. Clear enough?

[Giant Speck]

What are the rate of work capable people sitting at home doing nothing. Clear enough?

No, it's not. Because, for example, a twelve-year-old could be perfectly capable of working; however, because of their age and because of child labor laws in many countries, they probably wouldn't be considered part of the work force even if they were working.

[Tibuda]

What are the rate of work capable people sitting at home doing nothing. Clear enough?

These people are not included in the unemployment rate. What you are describing is the inactivity rate. Unemployment rate counts only how many people are not working, but are looking for a job (which is not nothing).

To be clear:
x = people not working and not looking for a job
y = people not working and looking for a job
z = people working
activity rate = (y + z) / (x + y + z)
unemployment rate = y / (y + z)

[moster]

No, it's not. Because, for example, a twelve-year-old could be perfectly capable of working; however, because of their age and because of child labor laws in many countries, they probably wouldn't be considered part of the work force even if they were working.


These people are not included in the unemployment rate. What you are describing is the inactivity rate. Unemployment rate counts only how many people are not working, but are looking for a job (which is not nothing).

To be clear:
x = people not working and not looking for a job
y = people not working and looking for a job
z = people working
activity rate = (y + z) / (x + y + z)
unemployment rate = y / (y + z)

If you really want, you two could complicate something so simple like taking a dump. How % of humans capable of work do not work. Of course that do not include people in school, sick, too young, too old, retarded, etc..

[SomeGuyDude]

Reported unemployment in my area was 19.5% last I heard on the news. Taking into account grads like myself that aren't collecting unemployment, it could be as high as 25%.

[blithen]

9.5 here in Spokane, Washington.

[Tibuda]

If you really want, you two could complicate something so simple and natural like taking a dump. How % of humans capable of work do not work. Of course that do not include people in school, sick, too young, too old, retarded, etc..

But this is not unemployment. Unemployment is not about the people capacity, but about people availability to work. There are capable people that don't want a job. The proper question is: How % of humans that want to work do not work?

The first sentence in the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment) is this:

Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work.

[castrojo]

28.9%

Go Detroit!

http://www.freep.com/article/20090827/NEWS01/90827037/1320/Detroit-jobless-rate-a-record-28.9-

[tad1073]

10.2% in Georgia
(http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet)

[KiwiNZ]

The human cost of this is terrible. I wonder if the financial institutions will learn the lesson this time or will history repeat its self in say 20 years? , alas probably.

The seeds are already being sown. Certain banks in the northern hemisphere have not reviewed their fiscal policies one iota.

[chris200x9]

28.9%

go detroit!

http://www.freep.com/article/20090827/news01/90827037/1320/detroit-jobless-rate-a-record-28.9-

+1 you from east or westside?

[SomeGuyDude]

The human cost of this is terrible. I wonder if the financial institutions will learn the lesson this time or will history repeat its self in say 20 years? , alas probably.

The seeds are already being sown. Certain banks in the northern hemisphere have not reviewed their fiscal policies one iota.

Learn what lesson? Their pockets are fatter than ever thanks to bailouts with no oversight. For a lot of the AIG and Citibank types, the meltdown was the best thing that could have happened to them. Why should they give a ***** about unemployment and poverty rates?

[Exodist]

US Bureau of Labor Statistics says 10.5% for Mississippi USA.
But IMHO thats FULL OF STINKY BROWN STUFF.
Right now where I live for example its between 1/4 and 1/5 that have no job. The company I work for has already lade half its employees off and its doing better then most others local factories.
I dont see how unemployment rate can be only 10.5% when 3 out of every 5 factories in MS are already shutdown and bankrupt with the others getting hit very hard as well. IMHO

I guess they may consider McDonalds and Bugerking "employment". I do not!

[Garrovick]

A little over 10 percent in South Carolina. About 2.5 percent in my County area.

[Groucho Marxist]

12.2% unemployment where I live! What is the unemployment rate where you live?

(Note: please keep this topic on economics and Not politics)
15.6% for Michigan :(

[HermanAB]

Calgary 6.9%
Edmonton 7%
All Alberta 7.2%

That is way up from a low of 3.6% a year or two ago.

[chriskin]

12.2% unemployment where I live! What is the unemployment rate where you live?

(Note: please keep this topic on economics and Not politics)

9% formal unemployment