The latest release of data gathered by the census compiled from 27 Match 2011 has revealed a raft of figures showing, for example, in which age-groups and sections of the community unemployment is rifest.

Not only does it show that eight out of ten of the 2,534 people who said that they were unemployed had been in the Island for ten years or more, but half were Jersey-born.

And the unemployment rate across the whole adult population was 4.7 per cent. For Jersey-born Islanders, that rate rose to 6.2 per cent.

Polish Islanders were the least likely of all nationalities to be out of work, while one in ten of the jobless had been in the Island for less than 15 months, and 60 per cent were male.

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