Employment rate 69.1% in Nov

25 Dec '07

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According to the Labour Force Survey, the average number of employed persons in the January to November 2007period was 2,492,000, which is 50,000 more than over the corresponding period in the year before. The average number of unemployed persons was 186,000, or 22,000 fewer than in the January to November period of 2006.

At end-November 2007, there were altogether 199,000 persons registered, in accordance with the Unemployment Security Act and the Labour Exchange Office Regulations, as unemployed job seekers at the labour exchange offices. The number of unemployed job seekers was 27,000 lower than in November 2006.

Unemployment fell from the previous year in the areas of all Employment and Economic Development Centres. The number of those covered by employment policy measures was 5,000 lower than in November the year before, and was 3.4 per cent of the labour force.

There were 18,000 unemployed job seekers aged under 25 registered at the labour exchange offices. Their number was 3,000 lower than in last year's November. During this November, 37,000 new vacancies were reported to the labour exchange offices, which is 2,000 more than in November 2006.

Statistics Finland

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