Registered unemployment; January 1952 - April 2010/June 2010

This table contains information on the history of the registered
unemployment. The figures are not adjusted for seasonal effects.
Until 1988 the time series contains monthly figures; from 1989
and onwards three-monthly averages are made under the middle month.

Data available from: January 1952

Status of the figures:
Figures based on the LFS are always final.

Changes as of December 1st:
July 2010 Statistics Netherlands has implemented a new method for
creating unemployment data. For the first time Statistics Netherlands
is able to publish monthly figures about unemployment. In order to
fit quarterly and yearly figures based on the LFS to these new
unemployment data, the weighing method of the LFS has been
improved. Because of this all quarterly and yearly figures have
been revised from 2001. The years before 2001 are not revised,
for these years the same figures are used that were already published.
For the tables on the registered unemployment this new method means
that it is no longer possible to publish monthly figures based on
three-month-averages as was done before. Tables, such as this table,
that still contain three-month-averages on the registered unemployment
are stopped and continued in new tables in which from publicationyear
2001 and onwards quarterly figures will be published.

When will new figures be published?
This table is stopped.