Registered unemployment and Social Security sign-ups in Sitges compared with similar coastal towns (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Castelldefels, Calafell, Cambrils, Salou), the Garraf and Catalonia, all per 100 residents so that towns of different sizes and growth rates can be compared. Town councils have few job levers (local employment programmes); labour law and benefits are national, job centres are run by the Generalitat. Shaded bands mark the mayor in office.
Registered unemployment in Sitges, month by month
People registered as job seekers without work (SEPE), Sitges. Unemployment falls every summer and rises every winter with the tourist season.
Gaps: SEPE's open files are missing May–December 2013 and December 2020.
Registered unemployed per 100 residents
12-month average (which removes the seasonal swing) over the population on 1 January. Not an unemployment rate: there is no labour-force-survey rate for a single town, and residents include children and pensioners.
The line breaks where the 12-month average can't be computed (the source gaps above).
Residents paying Social Security, per 100 residents
People living in each place who pay Social Security (employees and self-employed), wherever they work: yearly average over the population on 1 January. Complete years only.
Registered unemployed per 100 residents,
12-month average.