Unemployment still on the rise in Catalonia

From http://www.catalannewsagency.com/news/business/unemployment-increases-first-quarter-year-and-reaches-1901-active-population-catalonia (in English)

According to data recently published by the Spanish Institute of Statistics, unemployment in Catalonia has still increased in the first quarter of 2011, reaching 19.01% of the active population. During this period, job destruction created new 40,900 unemployed workers, which increased up to 727,600 people the number of jobseekers. These figures are a little bit better than in overall Spain, where the percentage rose up to 21.29% and the total number of unemployed workers reached 4,910,000.

Unemployment still on the rise in Catalonia and the rest of Spain

From http://www.expansion.com/2011/04/04/catalunya/1301910595.html and http://www.expansion.com/2011/04/04/economia/1301900769.html (in Spanish)

Job destruction is still on the rise both in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. March figures have shown another increase in unemployment rate, which accounted for 1.44% in Catalonia and 0.80% in Spain. Total number of unemployed people in Catalonia has reached 611,269 people and 4.333.669 people in overall Spain.