North’s Catholics twice as likely to be jobless as Protestants

30/05/2005 - 08:27:00
Catholic women in the North are three and a half times more likely to be unemployed than Protestant women, according to new British government statistics.

The figures show that Catholics in general are more than twice as likely to be on the dole queue as Protestants, a situation that has remained virtually unchanged in the past year.

The latest figures follow the publication of separate "deprivation" statistics showing that three of the four areas of highest unemployment in the North are in mainly nationalist areas.