Working Days Lost

Mr. G. Hall 
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the number of man-days lost through unemployment for each year since 1919?

Mr. E. Brown
The table below shows the estimated total number of working days lost owing to unemployment in each year since 1923 (the earliest year for which comparable figures can be given) by persons aged 16 to 64 insured against unemployment in Great Britain.The figures do not include unemployment among agricultural and other classes of workers who have been brought within the scope of unemployment insurance since 1935.-------
|1923 |
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|1924 |
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|1925 |
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|1926 |
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|1927 |
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|1928 |
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|1929 |
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|1930 |
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|1931 |
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|1932 |
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|1933 |
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|1934 |
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|1935 |
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|1936 |
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|1937 |
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|1938 |
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It is estimated that the aggregate number of possible working days for insured persons, aged 16–64 (exclusive of agricultural and domestic workers) ranged from about 3,300 million in 1923 to about 4,200 million in 1938.