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and August, the percentage was 51.8 and 52.1 respectively. As regards September, the
table has been completed by means of the available data.
It is clear from the foregoing that the number of registered unemployed not engaged
upon public works has fallen appreciably in the last few months. As a certain number
of the workers shown in the table as registered unemployed are engaged upon communal
reserve works—financed entirely by the communes themselves—the number of unem¬
ployed engaged upon public works is, in reality, greater than is shown by the figures given
in the table.
Table 9.
Number of Unemployed registered with the Central Unemployment Commission
and the Number of Unemployed engaged upon State Reserve Works or State-subsidised
Communal Reserve Works during the Budgetary Years 1929-30 to 1933-34.
1929 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
1930 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
1931 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
1932 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
1933 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
1934 : Number of registered unemployed
Number of unemployed engaged upon
reserve works
Percentage of total number of registered
unemployed
January
16,647
3,743
22 .5
40,245
5,98i
14.8
103,742
I5,H5
14 .6
189,225
24,736
I3-1
I7I,54°
33,372
19-5
13,572
3,829
28 .2
41,885
8,046
19.2
109,674
18,761
17.1
186,561
28,878
15-5
160,345
39,98o
25 -o
June
6,634
1,740
26 .2
3I,057
7,819
25 -2
97,370
20,994
21 .4
145,458
34,027
23 -3
99,628
44,498
44.6
September December
5,036
867
I7.2
8,589
1,408
16.4
40,377
7,843
19.4
106,404
22,404
21 .1
151,498
35,073
23.1
78,918
40,047
50.7
12,041
2,36/
19.7
31,901
3,902
12 .2
88,761
11,671
i3-i
161,155
23,084
14.4
I7I,065
28,615
16.8
Public works at the ordinary market rates.—As regards works of this type, the Ministry
of Social Affairs has, since the 1933-34 budgetary year, kept a record of all the decisions
taken by the Government in regard to credits provided for various undertakings and
objects. In regard to each of these credits, a special table has been compiled showing, in
respect of each undertaking subsidised, the date of the decision, the name of the under¬
taking, the total cost and the amount of the subsidy. A special register has been kept
of every commune which is directly subsidised or within which a subsidised undertaking
is situated. This register shows the amount of the subsidy, the character of the wTorks
and the total number of days’ work provided. Every subsidised undertaking is required