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20 August 2019 |
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The number of
unemployed jobseekers decreased in July
A total of 268,900 unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic Development Offices at the end of July. This was 15,100 fewer than a year earlier. The number of unemployed jobseekers increased by 14,800 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 65,100, down 11,900 on the previous year. The number of unemployed jobseekers over 50 years of age was 93,500, or 5,500 fewer than at the same time a year earlier.
Unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age numbered 36,700, representing a decrease of 2,500 from July last year. On average, 66.1 per cent of the unemployment periods of youths ended before reaching three months between January and July. This is 1.9 percentage points less than a year before.
Increase in new vacancies
The number of new vacancies reported to Employment and Economic Development Offices during July totalled 52,700, or 4,500 more than in July the previous year. In all, the number of unfilled vacancies at Employment and Economic Development Offices in July amounted to 100,000, which was 8,400 more than a year ago.
At the end of July, the number of persons covered by services included in the activation rate amounted to 101,200, down 4,700 on the previous year. These services include pay subsidies, labour market training, work trials and self-motivated studies.
At the end of July, the number of people laid off was 16,100 in the whole country, which was 1,200 fewer than at the same time the year before. The number of people fully laid off totalled 11,100, showing no change from July a year earlier.
Statistics Finland: Unemployment rate 6.0%
According to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland, in
July the number of people in employment was 3 000 fewer than on the
previous year. The employment rate was 74.5%, which was 0.4 percentage points
higher than in July the year before. According to the Survey, the unemployment
total was 169,000, which is 14,000 fewer than a year ago. The unemployment rate
was 6.0%, 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: https://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://www.temtyollisyyskatsaus.fi/graph/tkat/tkat.aspx?lang=en
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 https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/tyti/tie_en.html