the labour market 3 1 unemployment and force participation over last ten years rate in cradle coast region tasmania has been consistently above for which turn total australia period shown table below 1991 92 to 2001 02 s average monthly fallen from around 13 14 early nineties 9 same 11 12 8 10 6 7 while fluctuated first half of it steadily since 1997 98 except 2000 01 when remained as previous year 800 persons were estimated have unemployed compared with 4 600 a decrease 2 200 looking work number employed was by about 900