NSI: The Employment Rate for Population Aged 15 - 64 Achieved 71.4%

The activity rate for population aged 15 - 64 was 74.2%, by 1.7 percentage points higher compared to the third quarter of 2018.

The employment rate for population aged 15 - 64 increased by 2.6 percentage points from the same quarter of 2018 and achieved 71.4%.

The unemployment rate was 3.7%, by 1.3 percentage points lower compared to the third quarter of 2018.

There were 61.4 thousand discouraged persons aged 15 - 64, representing 5.3% of the economically inactive population in the same age group.

Employment

In the third quarter of 2019 there were 3 299.2 thousand employed persons aged 15 years and over, of whom 1 771.3 thousand men and 1 527.9 thousand women. The share of employed persons in the total population aged 15 years and over was 55.3% (61.9% for men and 49.2% for women).

In the third quarter of 2019, most employed persons - 2 079.2 thousand (63.0%) worked in the service sector, 989.8 thousand persons (30.0%) worked in the industry sector and 230.3 thousand persons (7.0%) worked in agriculture, forestry and fishing.

Of all employed persons 3.6% (118.3 thousand) were employers, 6.4% (210.1 thousand) were selfemployed persons without employees, 89.5% (2 953.3 thousand) were employees and 0.5% (17.5 thousand) were unpaid family workers. Of all employees 2 262.3 thousand persons (76.6%) worked in private sector while 690.9 thousand (23.4%) worked in public sector.

The number of employees with temporary job increased by 14.5% in comparison with the third quarter of 2018 and achieved 159.7 thousand, representing 5.4% of all employees. In the third quarter of 2019, the employment in specific age groups was as follows:

There were 3 194.1 thousand employed persons aged 15 - 64 years. The employment...

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