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PRESS RELEASE |
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21 December 2021 |
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252,700 unemployed
jobseekers in November
The
number of unemployed jobseekers decreased by 61,800 from November last year.
The number of new vacancies reported in November totalled 93,100. In all, the
number of unfilled vacancies amounted to 168,100, which is 76,800 more than a
year ago.
At the end of November, a total of 252,700
unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic
Development Offices and municipalities participating in the local government
pilots on employment. This is 61,800 less than a year earlier, but 24,100 more
than in November two years ago. The number of unemployed jobseekers was down by
6,300 from the previous month.
Of the unemployed jobseekers, 134,900 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 November, the number of people
laid off was 27,800 in the whole country, which was 48,600 fewer than at the
same time the year before. The number of people fully laid off totalled 18,600,
representing a decrease of 39,300 from November the year before. The number of
people fully laid off decreased by 1,100 from October.
106,200
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 106,200, up 20,900 on the previous year. The number of unemployed
jobseekers aged over 50 was 99,800, or 16,100 fewer than at the same time a
year earlier.
The number of unemployed jobseekers aged under
25 was 26,500, representing a decrease of 9,500 from November last year. Of the
unemployment periods of youths, 61.1 per cent ended before reaching three
months between January and November. This is 3.0 percentage points less than
the year before.
Increase
in new vacancies
The number of new vacancies reported during
November totalled 93,100, or 43,700 more than in November the previous year. In
all, the number of unfilled vacancies in November amounted to 168,100, which is
76,800 more than a year ago.
At the end of November, the number of persons
covered by services included in the activation rate amounted to 115,000, down
5,200 on the previous year. These services include pay subsidies,
labour market training, work trials and self-motivated studies.
Statistics
Finland: The trend of the unemployment rate 6.9%
According to the Labour Force Survey issued by
Statistics Finland, in November the number of people in employment was 62,000
more than on the previous year. The trend of the employment rate was 72.8%,
which was 1.8 percentage points higher than in November the year before. According
to the Survey, the unemployment total was 164,000, which is 24,000 less than a
year ago. The trend of the unemployment rate was 6.9%, or 1.3 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 in the statistics:
https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/tyti/tyti_2019-09-13_men_001_en.html
Inquiries:
Juho Peltonen, Specialist,
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, tel. +358 29 504 7119
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