Israel's July 2011 unemployment rate stays at 5.4%

In the second quarter, the unemployment rate reached 5.5%, its lowest level since the early 1980's

On 26 September, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced that Israel's unemployment rate remained at 5.4% in July 2011. The CBS noted that according to preliminary trend data for July 2011, the unemployment rate reached 5.4% of the total civilian labor force.
The unemployment rate was 5.4% in June and 5.5% in May.

It has fallen steadily from 6.1% in January. In the second quarter, the unemployment rate reached 5.5%, its lowest level since the early 1980's.

Unemployed persons are those who did not work at all during the determinant week (even for one hour), and who actively sought work during the four weeks preceding their enumeration in the survey, by registering with the Labor Exchanges of the Employment Service, by personal or written application to employers, or by other ways, and would have been available to start work in the determinant week had suitable work been offered.

Monthly trend data - percentage of unemployed persons, out of the total civilian labor force.