Labour Market

Population aged 15 to 74 by activity

	2000	2010	2016	2017
Population aged 15 to 74, thousand	3 901	4 043	4 109	4 114
Labour force	2 589	2 672	2 685	2 707
Employed	2 335	2 447	2 448	2 473
Unemployed	253	224	237	234
Inactive population	1 312	1 372	1 424	1 407
Labour force rate, %	66,4	66,1	65,3	65,8
Unemployment rate, %	9,8	8,4	8,8	8,6
Employed 1), thousand	2 335	2 447	2 448	2 473
Type of employment relationship, thousand
Part-time work	286	358	399	408
Full-time work	2 047	2 087	2 048	2 063
Employer sector, thousand
Private	1 692	1 774	1 783	1 794
Local government	486	510	528	533
Central government	151	153	129	141
Status in employment, thousand
Self-employed persons and unpaid family workers	319	328	344	326
Employees	2 016	2 120	2 105	2 147
Annual hours actually worked per employee, hours/year
Total	1 638	1 584	1 602	1 601
Private sector	1 673	1 614	1 626	1 625
Public sector	1 563	1 520	1 552	1 547

¹⁾ Incl. unknown

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Employment rate, persons aged 15 to 64

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Employed persons aged 15 to 74 by industry

	2000	2010	2016	2017
	Thousand persons
Agriculture, forestry and fishing; mining and quarrying	146	115	101	99
Manufacturing; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning and water supply; sewerage and waste management	473	388	356	355
Construction	147	172	178	187
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	277	298	290	282
Transportation and storage	152	156	141	139
Accommodation and food service activities	77	83	85	85
Information and communication	89	95	101	106
Financial, insurance and real estate activities	70	71	75	81
Professional, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service activities	184	250	271	283
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	115	117	111	115
Education	165	174	173	181
Human health and social work activities	326	379	409	404
Arts, entertainment and recreation; other service activities	109	139	148	152
Industry unknown	6	12	8	5
Total	2 335	2 447	2 448	2 473

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Employees aged 15 to 74 by type of employment relationship

	Employees total	Permanent full-time work		Permanent part-time work		Fixed-term work
		Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
	Thousand persons
2010	2 120	851	730	58	151	129	201
2011	2 143	851	734	67	155	135	202
2012	2 146	847	741	66	156	134	202
2013	2 127	846	734	61	155	129	201
2014	2 105	827	730	67	151	129	200
2015	2 090	817	733	71	149	127	194
2016	2 105	830	715	69	159	136	197
2017	2 147	855	716	68	164	141	204

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Unemployed, aged 15 to 74 years of age

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Unemployment rate

	Total	Males	Females	Aged 15 to 24	Long-term unemployed 1)
	Aged 15 to 74
	%	%	%	%	% of unemployed
2010	8,4	9,1	7,6	21,4	23,4
2011	7,8	8,4	7,1	20,1	22,4
2012	7,7	8,3	7,1	19,0	21,5
2013	8,2	8,8	7,5	19,9	21,0
2014	8,7	9,3	8,0	20,5	22,8
2015	9,4	9,9	8,8	22,4	24,9
2016	8,8	9,0	8,6	20,1	26,3
2017	8,6	8,9	8,4	20,1	24,7

¹⁾ Unemployed continuously for 12 months or longer

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour force survey

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Commuting

	Persons working outside their municipality of residence		Persons working in their municipality of residence
	Total	%	Total	%
1990	510 138	21,9	1 822 144	78,1
2000	611 275	27,4	1 617 282	72,6
2010	752 242	32,3	1 573 437	67,7
2011	771 537	32,8	1 582 885	67,2
2012	770 300	32,9	1 569 604	67,1
2013	760 939	33,1	1 540 812	66,9
2014	756 617	33,3	1 517 459	66,7
2015	758 717	33,6	1 497 742	66,4
2016	775 724	34,1	1 499 955	65,9

Source: Statistics Finland, Employment

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Updated: 11.10.2018

 

Main topic: Labour Market

Last updated 11 Oct 2018