Labour Market

Population by activity

	1990	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
	1 000 persons
Mean population	4 986	5 176	5 246	5 266	5 289	5 313	5 339	5 363	5 388	5 414	5 439

Population aged 15–74	3 737	3 901	3 948	3 963	3 981	4 004	4 025	4 043	4 059	4 075	4 087
Labour force	2 586	2 589	2 621	2 648	2 675	2 703	2 678	2 672	2 682	2 690	2 676
Employed	2 504	2 335	2 401	2 443	2 492	2 531	2 457	2 447	2 474	2 483	2 457
Unemployed	82	253	220	204	183	172	221	224	209	207	219
Inactive population	1 151	1 312	1 327	1 315	1 306	1 301	1 347	1 372	1 376	1 385	1 411
Labour force rate, %	69,2	66,4	66,4	66,8	67,2	67,5	66,5	66,1	66,1	66,0	65,5
Unemployment rate, %	3,2	9,8	8,4	7,7	6,9	6,4	8,2	8,4	7,8	7,7	8,2

Employment rate (persons aged 15–64), %	74,1	66,9	68,0	68,9	69,9	70,6	68,3	67,8	68,6	69,0	68,5

Employed	2 504	2 335	2 401	2 443	2 492	2 531	2 457	2 447	2 474	2 483	2 457

Hours worked
Part-time work	238	286	330	343	351	338	343	358	369	374	370
Full-time work	2 267	2 047	2 071	2 099	2 140	2 192	2 113	2 087	2 102	2 108	2 086
Unknown	-	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1
Employer
Private	1 793	1 692	1 744	1 786	1 830	1 856	1 794	1 774	1 796	1 808	1 781
Local government	482	486	506	507	505	509	502	510	517	522	526
Central government	226	151	147	149	152	157	155	153	151	144	142
Unknown	3	6	3	2	4	9	6	10	10	9	8
Industrial status
Self-employed persons and assisting family members	388	319	303	314	314	324	334	328	331	337	330
Wage and salary earners	2 116	2 016	2 098	2 129	2 178	2 207	2 123	2 120	2 143	2 146	2 127
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Industry (TOL 2008)
Agriculture, forestry and fishing; mining and quarrying (A, B)	. .	146	121	118	118	119	119	115	110	109	107
Manufacturing; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning and water supply; sewerage and waste management (C-E)	. .	473	441	443	446	443	406	388	384	382	377
Construction (F)	. .	147	159	164	174	186	175	172	176	175	176
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G)	. .	277	295	298	305	311	296	298	303	300	296
Transportation and storage (H)	. .	152	144	154	151	153	153	156	147	144	142
Accommodation and food service activities (I)	. .	77	78	78	84	88	85	83	83	86	86
Information and communication (J)	. .	89	92	98	95	95	94	95	99	101	100
Financial, insurance and real estate activities (K, L)	. .	70	68	67	70	71	70	71	75	74	71
Professional, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service activities (M, N)	. .	184	224	235	250	253	244	250	253	261	260
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security (O)	. .	115	126	123	119	117	116	117	116	113	111
Education (P)	. .	165	166	171	168	165	164	174	179	175	175
Human health and social work activities (Q)	. .	326	355	364	370	382	388	379	396	409	399
Arts, entertainment and recreation; other service activities (R-U)	. .	109	127	127	135	136	138	139	141	142	144
Industry unknown (X)	. .	6	5	4	6	12	9	12	11	11	13

Hours worked, million hours	4 415	I 4 019	4 000	4 055	4 112	4 211	3 958	3 998	4 034	4 040	3 964
I line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour Market

Table in Excel format suoluk_tyol1.xls

Last updated: 24.3.2014

Unemployment

	Unemployed, 1 000 persons			Unemployment rate, %
	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
1990	82	49	33	3,2	3,6	2,7
1991	169	106	62	6,6	8,0	5,1
1992	292	178	114	11,7	13,6	9,6
1993	405	235	170	16,3	18,1	14,4
1994	408	235	174	16,6	18,1	14,8
1995	382	204	178	15,4	15,7	15,1
1996	363	186	176	14,6	14,3	14,9
1997	314	160	154	12,7	12,3	13,0
1998	285	143	142	11,4	10,9	12,0
1999	261	130	131	10,2	9,8	10,7
2000	253	122	131	9,8	9,1	10,6
2001	238	117	121	9,1	8,6	9,7
2002	237	123	114	9,1	9,1	9,1
2003	235	124	111	9,0	9,2	8,9
2004	229	118	111	8,8	8,7	8,9
2005	220	111	109	8,4	8,2	8,6
2006	204	101	104	7,7	7,4	8,1
2007	183	90	93	6,9	6,5	7,2
2008	172	85	87	6,4	6,1	6,7
2009	221	122	99	8,2	8,9	7,6
2010	224	126	98	8,4	9,1	7,6
2011	209	117	91	7,8	8,4	7,1
2012	207	115	92	7,7	8,3	7,1
2013	219	122	97	8,2	8,8	7,5

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour Market

Table in Excel format suoluk_tyol2.xls

Last updated: 28.1.2014

Last updated 24.3.2014

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