§ Mr. Raisonasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of the potential work force in each of the standard age groups is unemployed for more than three months.
§ Mr. GoldingI expect to be able to supply information based on the January unemployment statistics in about a month, when corresponding estimates by age of the number of employees become available. Calculations based on the previous
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PERCENTAGE CHANGES IN CONSUMER PRICE INDICES United States of America Canada Japan France Federal Republic of Germany Italy United Kingdom Year to January 1971 … 5.2 1.6 6.3 4.7 4.2 5.2 8.5 Year to January 1972 … 3.3 5.0 3.8 5.7 5.4 4.7 8.2 Year to January 1973 … 3.7 5.6 6.2 6.6 6.3 8.1 7.7 Year to January 1974 … 9.4 9.1 23.1 10.3 7.4 13.2 12.0 Quarter to April 1974 … 3.0 2.8 7.0 4.2 1.8 6.1 6.1 Quarter to July 1974 … 2.9 3.7 2.9 3.6 1.3 4.9 3.4 Quarter to October 1974 … 3.4 2.5 5.0 3.1 1.0 7.1 3.2 Quarter to January 1975 … 2.0 2.6 1.6 2.9 1.9 4.1 5.9 Quarter to April 1975 … 1.6 1.8 3.5 2.5 1.8 2.9 7.7 Quarter to July 1975 … 2.3 3.7 0.9 2.2 1.3 2.0 7.3 Quarter to October 1975 … 1.4 2.2 3.3 2.3 0.7 2.6 2.9 Quarter to January 1976 … 1.3 1.6 1.1 2.3 1.4 3.0 3.8 Quarter to April 1976 … 0.9 1.1 3.8 2.4 1.7 7.0 3.8 Quarter to July 1976 … 1.7 1.7 1.0 2.1 0.2 3.0 1.8 Quarter to October 1976 … 1.3 1.6 2.5 2.8 0.4 5.8 4.6 Quarter to January 1977 … 1.1 1.5 2.0 1.5 1.6 4.9 5.4 Month to February 1977 … 1.1 0.9 0.6 0.7 0.6 1.9 1.0 Month to March 1977 … 0.6 1.0 0.6 0.9 0.3 1.2 1.0 Month to April 1977 … 0.8 0.6 1.7 1.3 0.5 1.2 2.6 Month to May 1977 … 0.6 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.4 1.3 0.8 Month to June 1977 … 0.6 0.7 -0.5 0.8 0.5 0.7 1.0 Month to July 1977 … 0.4 1.0 -0.2 0.9 -0.1 0.6 0.1 Month to August 1977 … 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.5 -0.1 0.9 0.5 Month to September 1977 … 0.4 0.5 1.8 0.9 -0.1 1.3 0.5 Month to October 1977 … 0.3 1.0 0.5 0.8 0.1 1.3 0.4 Month to November 1977 … 0.5 0.6 -1.2 0.4 0.1 1.0 0.5 Month to December 1977 … 0.4 0.6 -0.2 0.3 0.3 n.a. 0.5 Month to January 1978 … n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.6 n.a. = Not available. age analysis of the unemployed—for July 1977—would produce a different picture for young people because of the large number of summer school leavers.