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Rte News website - Misleading Headline of the year award?

  • 03-03-2010 6:32pm
    #1
    Tradnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    20 people added to Live Register in February


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0303/liveregister.html

    By reading this you'd be forgiven for thinking that only 20 people had signed on in total in feb.....Madness....Maybe if it said 20 'more' than Jan etc


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  • #2
    The Oggmonster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭The Oggmonster


    But it says 20 people added to the live register, not that only 20 people signed on.


  • #3
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭murphym7


    Tradnuts wrote: »
    20 people added to Live Register in February


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0303/liveregister.html

    By reading this you'd be forgiven for thinking that only 20 people had signed on in total in feb.....Madness....Maybe if it said 20 'more' than Jan etc



    Read it again for god's sake.


  • #4
    Tradnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Tradnuts


    So what ye are saying is that the live reg is not the amount of people actually signed on in the month, its something else? forgive my ignorance.
    I understand it says 'added'.
    What is the live register so?


  • #5
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    20 people added to the live register does not mean that there is only 20 people on the live register.

    The headline means that there are now an extra 20 people on the live register.


  • #6
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    20 people added to Live Register in February


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  • #7
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,138 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    The reason for the low number of people added to the register in Feb is the strike work to rule by the Social Welfare civil servants complaining about the pay cut that they are forced to endure while dealing with people who have to live with a 100% pay cut.

    People without a job are 'unemployed', while people on the 'live register' are those on 'jobseekers benfit/allowance'. Not all of the former qualify for the latter.

    It is called statistics.


  • #8
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    The reason for the low number of people added to the register in Feb is the strike work to rule by the Social Welfare civil servants complaining about the pay cut that they are forced to endure while dealing with people who have to live with a 100% pay cut.

    People without a job are 'unemployed', while people on the 'live register' are those on 'jobseekers benfit/allowance'. Not all of the former qualify for the latter.

    It is called statistics.

    Yeah there are a number of reasons why there was only a small increase in Feb including perhaps Work To Rule in SFA, people in FAS training course, people leaving the country, others starting college and a tiny few getting re-employed. Live Register doesn't included pensioners either (well they are practical dead at that stage :rolleyes: ).


    Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

    But the headline is correct according to the stats only 20 people were added to the live register, a better statistic would be how many people lost their job, how many people found employment, how many people left the country and how many people when into retirement during the month


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