18.01.2023

THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY REPORTED 4.7% UNEMPLOYMENT FOR DECEMBER

The 4.7% unemployment reported by the Employment Agency's administrative statistics for the last month of 2022 registered the lowest value of the indicator for December. The decline in terms of annual dynamics continues - in this case by 0.1 percentage points. This is reported by the Employment Agency.

The number of unemployed people who started work in the last month of 2022 is 9,938. 154 persons from the groups of pensioners, students and employed persons also found work through the labor offices, the Employment Agency informs.

In December, the largest share of those who started work in the processing industry sector - 18.1%, followed by those in trade - 16.8%, hotels and restaurants - 12.6%, state administration - 6.4%, human health care and social work - 6.4%, construction - 5.1% and others, the agency further specifies.

At the end of the month, the registered unemployed at the labor offices totaled 153,944, which is an increase of 8,513 persons more than those reported in November. Newly registered in December were 26,413 - 2,669 more than the previous month. Another 411 people from the groups of jobseekers employed, students and pensioners also registered at the labor offices during the month, the Employment Agency reports.

The data also show that 1,770 unemployed people from the risk groups were assigned to subsidized jobs during the month - 76 under employment programs and measures and 1,694 - under the schemes of the Operational Program "Development of Human Resources". In December, 179 unemployed and employed persons were included in various trainings, and 416 completed the training started in previous months, acquiring a new profession or key competence.

Claimed jobs on the primary labor market in December were 5,542. The largest number of job vacancies in the real economy were claimed in manufacturing (20.5%), followed by government (16.6%); hotel and catering (11.6%), trade (11.2%), education (8.5%) and administrative and auxiliary activities (4.8%), according to the Employment Agency.

According to statistics, the most sought-after occupations by businesses in the same month are: staff caring for people; personnel employed in the field of personal services; sellers; waste collection and related workers; workers in the mining and processing industries, construction and transport; machine operators of stationary machinery and equipment; metallurgists, machine builders and related workers and artisans; drivers of motor vehicles and mobile equipment; teachers; cleaners and helpers etc.

The Employment Agency reminds that the unemployment rate is defined as the share of registered unemployed persons from the economically active population aged 15 - 64 years, established in the 2011 Census.

The reported unemployment rate in November was 4.4%.