Liddallasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment, by numbers, industries, and percentages, respectively, for the city of Lincoln for the months of July, August, and September, 1937; and show comparable figures for the similar months in 1930; 1931, and 1932?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe available figures relate to the area served by the Lincoln Employment Exchange. The following table shows the numbers and percentages of insured persons, aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries in Lincoln at a date in July, August and September of each of the years 1937, 1932, 1931, and 1930:
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Industry. 1937. 1932. 1931. 1930. 26th July. 23rd Aug. 13th Sept.* 25th July. 22nd Aug. 26th Sept. 27th July. 24th Aug. 21st Sept. 21st July. 25th Aug. 22nd Sept. Building 141 106 140 374 378 464 234 203 229 203 232 260 6.8 5.1 6.7 25.8 26.1 32.0 16.1 14.0 15.8 16.2 18.6 20.8 General Engineering, etc. 481 439 448 3.33 3.65 3,751 2,709 2,649 2,893 1,551 1,567 1,858 7.4 6.8 6.9 41.1 45.0 46.3 32.9 32.2 35.1 17.7 17.9 21.2 Sawmilling and Machined 15 18 17 112 103 96 37 62 70 52 41 50 3.1 3.7 3.5 30.3 27.8 25.9 10.0 16.8 18.9 14.4 11.4 13.9 Hotel, Boarding House, etc., 67 82 78 79 73 108 57 107 108 35 45 49 12.4 15.2 14.4 15.2 14.0 20.8 11.2 21.0 21.2 8.8 11.3 12.3 Micellaneous Food Industries 107 89 82 156 78 103 109 133 98 54 74 54 18.8 15.6 14.4 27.9 13.9 18.4 20.6 25.1 18.5 12.0 16.4 12.0 Distributive Trades 248 253 273 434 439 468 361 355 404 260 263 267 6.8 7.0 7.5 11.7 11.9 12.6 10.6 10.4 11.8 8.1 8.2 8.3 All other Industries and Services. 838 892 832 1,774 1,824 1,959 1,429 1,390 1,481 1,068 1,205 1,259 9.4 10.0 9.3 22.0 22.6 24.2 17.6 17.2 18.3 15.1 17 17.8 Total 11-Mar 1,884 1,870 6,261 6,543 6,949 4,936 4,899 5,289 3,223 3,427 3,797 8.3 8.3 8.2 27.5 28.7 30.5 21.8 21.7 23.4 15.0 15.9 17.7 NOTE.—The figures given in the above table for july,August and Septemper,1937,are exclusive of agricultural workers; the numbers of such workers,aged 16–64 years,recorded as unemployed at the Lincoln employment Exchange at 26th July, 23rd August, and 13th Septemper, 1937, were 94,143 and 192 respectively. * A change was made in September, 1937, m the procedure for counting the unemployed, in order to ensure with closer accuracy that persons not actually unemployed on the day of the count are not included in the total. The change reduced the numbers of insured persons recorded as unemployed at the Lincoln Employment Exchange by 20 or o-1 per cent, of the numbers insured.