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PRESS RELEASE |
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21 September 2021 |
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281,000 unemployed
jobseekers in August
The
number of unemployed jobseekers decreased by 48,700 from August last year. The
number of new vacancies reported in August totalled 90,100. In all, the number
of unfilled vacancies amounted to 155,300, which is 56,700 more than a year
ago.
At the end of August, a total of 281,000
unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic
Development Offices and municipalities participating in the local government
pilots on employment. This is 48,700 less than a year earlier, but 48,400 more
than in August two years ago. The number of unemployed jobseekers was down by 41,500
from the previous month.
Of the unemployed jobseekers, 150,500 were
customers of municipalities participating in the local government pilots on
employment. The number of unemployed jobseekers also includes those fully laid
off. These figures are from the Employment Bulletin of the Ministry of Economic
Affairs and Employment.
At the end of August, the number of people
laid off was 35,700 in the whole country, which was 42,100 fewer than at the
same time the year before. The number of people fully laid off totalled 24,600,
representing a decrease of 36,400 from August the year before. The number of
people fully laid off decreased by 7,800 from July.
111,800
unemployed in the long term
The number of long-term unemployed — that is
those who had been unemployed without interruption for at least a year —
amounted to 111,800, up 32,900 on the previous year. The number of unemployed
jobseekers aged over 50 was 105,200, or 10,100 fewer than at the same time a
year earlier.
Unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age
numbered 32,800, representing a decrease of 9,200 from August last year. Of the
unemployment periods of youths, 58.5 per cent ended before reaching three
months between January and August. This is 4.4 percentage points less than a
year before.
Increase
in new vacancies
The number of new vacancies reported during
August totalled 90,100, or 34,500 more than in August the previous year. In
all, the number of unfilled vacancies in August amounted to 155,300, which is
56,700 more than a year ago.
At the end of August, the number of persons
covered by services included in the activation rate amounted to 105,900, down
100 on the previous year. These services include pay subsidies,
labour market training, work trials and self-motivated studies.
Statistics Finland: Unemployment rate 6.5%
According to the Labour Force Survey issued by
Statistics Finland, in August the number of people in employment was 104,000 more
than on the previous year. The employment rate was 73.4%, which was 3.3
percentage points higher than in August the year before. According to the
Survey, the unemployment total was 179,000, which is 33,000 less than a year
ago. The unemployment rate was 6.5%, or 1.4 percentage points lower than the
previous year.
Press release on
the revision of the Labour Force Survey: https://www.stat.fi/til/tyti/tyti_2020-12-22_uut_001_en.html
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 of 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://tilastokeskus.fi/til/tyti/tyti_2019-09-13_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
https://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