Employment rate
| Updated: 23.4.2013 - Next update: 21.5.2013 |
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In March 2013, the number of employed persons was 2,391,000, which was 41,000 lower than a year earlier (margin of error ± 32,000). There were 35,000 fewer employed men and 5,000 fewer employed women than in March 2012. The number of employed persons decreased both in the private and the public sector compared with March 2012.
In March, the employment rate, that is, the proportion of the employed among persons aged 15 to 64, stood at 66.6 per cent, which was 1.0 percentage point lower than one year before. From last years March, mens employment rate fell by 1.6 percentage points to 66.9 per cent and womens by 0.3 percentage points to 66.3 per cent. Adjusted for seasonal and random variation, the trend of the employment rate was 68.4 per cent.
Statistical releaseSource:
Statistics Finland / Labour force survey
Description of indicator
Employment rate is the ratio of employed persons to the population of the same age. The employment rate of the total population is calculated as the ratio of 15 to 64-year-old employed persons to the population of the same age.
A person is employed if he/she has during the survey week been in gainful employment at least one hour against wages or salary or fringe benefits, or to make profit, or has been temporarily absent from work. A person absent from work in the survey week is counted as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave, own illness or if the absence has lasted under three months. Employed persons can be employees, self-employed or members of the same household working without actual pay in an enterprise owned by a family member.
