§ Comparable figures are not available for any of the other countries named in the question, mainly because provision for the relief of unemployment is on a different basis from that in operation in this country. Some information as to
| AVERAGE NUMBERS OF PERSONS RECORDED AS UNEMPLOYED. | |||||||||
| (Nearest thousand: 000's omitted.) | |||||||||
| Year. | Belgium. (a) | Denmark. | Holland. | Sweden. | |||||
| (b) | (c) | (a) | (d) | (e) | (f) | ||||
| 1931 | … | … | 110 | 53 | 59 | 83 | 138 | 65 | 47 |
| 1932 | … | … | 211 | 100 | 126 | 154 | 271 | 91 | 114 |
| 1933 | … | … | 210 | 97 | 121 | 163 | 323 | 97 | 165 |
| 1934 | … | … | 235 | 82 | 98 | 160 | 333 | 85 | 115 |
| 1935 | … | … | 212 | 76 | 92 | 174 | 385 | 81 | 62 |
| 1936 | … | … | 155 | 79 | 93 | 169 | 415 | 72 | 36 |
| (a) Unemployment insurance statistics of unemployed. | |||||||||
| (b) Trade union unemployment fund returns of unemployed. | |||||||||
| (c) Applicants for work registered at employment exchanges. | |||||||||
| (d) Unemployed registered at employment exchanges. | |||||||||
| (e) Trade union returns of unemployed. | |||||||||
| (f) Applicants for relief registered by local unemployment committees. |
§ Information is not available which would show to what extent the same individuals are included in the two series of figures given for Denmark, Holland and Sweden.