2015-086 - registered job seekers and offers collected by Pôle emploi in October 2015

In late October 2015, in France, the number of job seekers required to seek employment without work (Category A) totaled 3589 800. It increases by 1.2% over the month (42 000 persons) and 3.7% year on year. 

In October 2015, this number is stable for less than 25 years (-2.9% yoy), increases of 1.4% for 25-49 years ( + 3.3% yoy) and 1.5% for 50 years or more (+ 9.2% yoy).

In late October 2015, the number of job seekers required to seek employment and who exercised reduced activity in the month totaled 710,200 for category B (78 hours or less during the month) (-0.9 % over the month, + 5.4% yoy) and 1,135,800 for category C (over 78 hours in the month) (-1.9% over the month, 11.6% on a year).

In total, the number of jobseekers in categories A, B, C 5435 is 800. This number increases by 0.2% over one month and 5.5% year on year. In October 2015, this number decreased by 0.5% for those under 25 years (0.5% year on year), increases of 0.2% for 25-49 years (5.2% year on year ) and increases of 0.8% for 50 years or more (+ 9.8% yoy).

In late October 2015, 691,400 people are registered at employment center without being required to seek work, whether they are unemployed (category D) or manual (category E). The number of registered in category D decreases of 0.4% and the Class E registered increases of 1.0%.

In France (including Dom), the number of unemployed amounted to 3,850,900 for category A (+ 1.1% over the month, + 3.5% over a year) and 5,740,600 for Categories A, B, C (+ 0.2% over the month, + 5.3% yoy).

The data presented relate to the job seekers registered at employment center end of the month.
The concept of job seekers registered at employment center is a different concept from that of unemployed based on International Labour Organization (ILO): some applicants employment are not unemployed according to the ILO and some unemployed according to the ILO are not registered at employment center. 
Beyond the labor market developments, different factors may affect more data on job seekers: changes of monitoring and support for job-seekers, registration behavior of job seekers ... 
A full documentation of data on registered job seekers and job advertisements collected by Pôle emploi is available on the websites the