Scotland's jobless rate remains lower than UK-wide total
The UK-wide unemployment rate is 0.3 percentage points higher than Scotland's.
Scotland continues to have a lower unemployment rate than the UK as a whole, official statistics show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed the country's jobless total remained static at 4% between September and November, down 1% on the previous year.
Over the same period, the unemployment rate across the UK as whole was 4.3%, while in Northern Ireland it fell to 3.8% and in Wales it rose slightly to 4.9%.
A total of 112,000 Scots are out of work, a fall of 25,000 when compared to the previous year.
Northern Ireland recorded the largest year-on-year proportional fall, with unemployment plummeting by 1.8%.