The number of persons registering for work in October stood at 4,916 compared to 6,596 in the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said.

It said data provided by the Employment and Training Corporation showed that when compared to October last year, registrants for work decreased irrespective of how long they had been registering.

The largest drop was among persons who had been registering for over one year. The number of persons with a disability who were registering for work also decreased and stood at 390 from 458 in 2014.

Men accounted for 80.8 per cent of total registrants with a disability.

The largest share of males on the unemployment register sought occupations as crafts and related trade workers (18.3 per cent), whereas their female counterparts mostly sought occupations as clerical support workers (28.2 per cent).

The registered unemployment rate in May stood at 3.1 per cent of the labour supply (excluding part-time employment), and varied from 3.6 per cent among men to 2.2 per cent among women.

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