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23 May 2019 |
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Decrease in
unemployed jobseekers in April
A total of 229,600 unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic Development Offices at the end of April. This was 25,000 fewer than a year earlier. The number of unemployed jobseekers was down by 8,700 from the previous month. These figures are from the Employment Bulletin of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
The number of long-term unemployed — that is those who had been unemployed without interruption for at least a year — amounted to 63,100, down 17,500 on the previous year. The number of unemployed jobseekers aged over 50 was 87,600, or 11,300 fewer than at the same time a year earlier.
Unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age numbered 28,400, representing a decrease of 2,900 from April last year. Among unemployed young people, the period of unemployment ended within three months on average in 65.5% of cases between January and April, which is 3.0 percentage points less than the year before.
Increase in new vacancies
The number of new vacancies reported to Employment and Economic Development Offices during April totalled 68,800, or 8,700 more than in April the previous year. In all, the number of unfilled vacancies at Employment and Economic Development Offices in April amounted to 144,700, which was 23,200 more than a year ago.
At the end of April, the number of persons covered by services included in the activation rate amounted to 129,800, down 2,200 on the previous year. These services include pay subsidies, labour market training, work trials and self-motivated studies.
At the end of April, the number of people laid off was 17,400 in the whole country, which was 2,200 fewer than at the same time the year before. The number of people fully laid off totalled 11,600, representing a decrease of 400 from April the year before.
Statistics Finland: Unemployment rate 8.0%
According to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland, in
April the number of people in employment was up 28,000 on the previous year.
The employment rate was 71.2%, which was 1.2 percentage points higher than in April
the year before. According to the Survey, the unemployment total was 220,000,
which is 14,000 fewer than a year ago. The unemployment rate was 8.0%, or 0.5
percentage points lower than the previous year.
Key differences
between Employment Service Statistics and the Labour Force Survey
This information
is based on the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment’s Employment
Service Statistics and the Labour Force Survey of Statistics Finland. The
Employment Service Statistics of the Ministry are compiled on the basis of the
information in the Employment and Economic Development Offices’ customer
register, while the Labour Force Survey of Statistics Finland is based
on sampling.
In the Ministry’s
Employment Service Statistics, people that are not in an employment
relationship or employed in business are listed as unemployed. Persons fully
laid-off but not full-time students are also categorised as unemployed in the
Employment Service Statistics. The Labour Force Survey of Statistics Finland
has a stricter definition for being unemployed: a person is unemployed if he or
she has actively sought employment during the preceding four weeks and is
available for work over the coming two weeks. The figures of the Labour Force
Survey of Statistics Finland are internationally comparable and thus they are
the official Finnish unemployment statistics.
Further information on the differences between the statistics: http://www.stat.fi/til/tyti/tyti_2016-08-23_men_001_en.html
Inquiries:
Petri
Syvänen, Ministerial adviser, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, tel.
+358 29 504 8050.
Links:
Employment Bulletin of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment: https://tem.fi/en/employment-bulletin
Key definitions of the Employment Service Statistics
http://tem.fi/en/release-dates-of-statistics-and-description-and-quality-description
More detailed information on the Employment Service Statistics is
available in the StatFin database: https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__tym__tyonv/
Joint publication of the Statistics Finland and the Ministry of Economic
Affairs and Employment http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/tyti/tie_en.html