HC Deb 28 June 1937 vol 325 c1635

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.