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PRESS RELEASE |
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2 May 2022 |
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250,700 unemployed
jobseekers in March
The
number of unemployed jobseekers decreased by 80,800. The number of new
vacancies reported in March totalled 126,200. In all, the number of unfilled
vacancies amounted to 259,100, which is 96,600 more than a year ago.
At the end of March, a total of 250,700
unemployed jobseekers were registered at the Employment and Economic
Development Offices and municipalities participating in the local government
pilots on employment. This is 80,800 fewer than a year earlier and 14,900 fewer
than in the previous month.
Of the unemployed jobseekers, 135,000, or
27,100 fewer than in March a year ago, 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 March, the number of people
laid off was 28,600 in the whole country, which was 50,900 fewer than at the
same time the year before. The number of people fully laid off totalled 21,000,
representing a decrease of 41,800 from March the year before. The number of
people fully laid off decreased by 5,900 from February.
100,500
unemployed in the long term
The number of long-term unemployed — i.e.
those who had been unemployed without interruption for at least a year —
amounted to 100,500, down 3,500 on the previous year. The number of unemployed
jobseekers aged over 50 was 98,800, or 21,200 fewer than at the same time a
year earlier.
The number of unemployed jobseekers aged
under 25 was 26,300, representing a decrease of 14,300 from March last year. Of
the unemployment periods of youths, 60.2 per cent ended before reaching three
months between January and March. This is 5.3 percentage points more than the
year before.
Increase
in new vacancies
The number of new vacancies reported during
March totalled 126,200, or 48,500 more than in March the previous year. The
total number of unfilled vacancies amounted to 259,100 in March, which was
96,600 more than a year ago.
At the end of March, the number of persons
covered by services included in the activation rate amounted to 114,200, down
2,900 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 6.6%
According to the Labour
Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland, in March the number of people in
employment was 77,000 more than on the previous year. The trend of the
employment rate was 73.7%, which was 2.6 percentage points higher than in March
the year before. According to the Survey, the unemployment total was 192,000,
which is 31,000 less than a year ago. The trend of the unemployment rate was 6.6%,
or 1.4 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 employment service statistics of the
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment persons that are not in 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://statfin.stat.fi/PxWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/
Statistics Finland’s Labour Force Survey: https://www.stat.fi/en/statistics/tyti