{"id":268848,"date":"2025-07-17T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268848\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:31:11","slug":"unemployment-rates-in-scotland-fall-and-remain-below-rest-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268848\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rates in Scotland fall and remain below rest of UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter, according to the latest figures.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the unemployment rate for people aged 16 and over was 3.7% between March and May this year.<\/p>\n<p>This was 0.5% down on the previous quarter and below the UK wide rate of 4.7%.<\/p>\n<p>There were 102,000 people aged 16 and over out of work in Scotland in the latest quarter, according to the figures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The employment rate for those aged 16 to 64 was 74.9%, which was 0.6% up on the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The figures showed that there were 2,674,000 people aged 16 and over in employment between March and May this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter, according to the latest figures. Data from the Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,28810,4884,15165,712,16,16919,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-employment-rate","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-office-for-national-statistics","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-unemployment-rate","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867646150844531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}