eet ered eee an A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 +: thu THE REGIONAL unemployment rate has registered i in the double digits for the last two months, but it is nothing to get overly concerned about, says a federal analyst. =, ©.” 0. Patrick Blaine McIntyre of the Human Resources Devel-.” - opment Canada’s Terrace office says March’s rate of 11. 5 "per cent and February’ s-rate of 10.3 per cent reflect the sea- sonal nature of the region’s resource-based economy. January’s unemployment rate was 9.7 per cent and De- cember 2004's rate was 8.7 per cent. “Right now fishing and fish processing is down and that” s about normal. In general, other parts of the equation are fair-, _ly stable,”, McIntyre said. Mcintyre’ s predicting that ‘April’ S ‘stats should be about , the same as March. “He also noted the March, unemployment figure i is much . better than March 2004 when the rate was 13.2 per cent. ' March statistics showed that 31,500 people had full time work in the area from the Queen Charlotte Islands to just this side of Vanderhoof, a drop from 32,300 in February. The number of part time workers increased, from. 12, 900 in February,to 13,200 in March. Overall, the number of people working declined slightly, 7 _ from 45,200 in February to 44,700 in March. “Melntyre is happy the Participation ‘rate, the percentage »bless rate goes u of people either looking for work or who have work i is hold- ing.steady in the 70 per cent range. . “It means there are people who haven't left the job search ard are still looking for work. It shows there is a little more optimism out there,” he said. McIntyre did caution that the number of EI claims filed in the Terrace and Kitimat area is higher than he would like to see. “But you have to remember there’s just not'a whole lot of movement one way or the other here in the winter,” he added. . 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