Labour Market

Population by activity
Unemployment

Population by activity

	1990	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	1 000 persons
Mean population	4 986	5 176	5 188	5 201	5 213	5 228	5 246	5 266	5 289	5 313

Population aged 15-74	3 737	3 901	3 909	3 918	3 926	3 935	3 948	3 963	3 981	4 004
Labour force	2 586	2 589	2 605	2 610	2 600	2 594	2 621	2 648	2 675	2 703
Employed	2 504	2 335	2 367	2 372	2 365	2 365	2 401	2 444	2 492	2 531
Unemployed	82	253	238	237	235	229	220	204	183	172
Not in labour force	1 151	1 312	1 304	1 308	1 327	1 342	1 327	1 315	1 306	1 301
Labour force rate, %	69,2	66,4	66,6	66,6	66,2	65,9	66,4	66,8	67,2	67,5
Unemployment rate, %	3,2	9,8	9,1	9,1	9,0	8,8	8,4	7,7	6,9	6,4

Employment rate (persons aged 15-64), %	74,1	66,9	67,7	67,7	67,3	67,2	68,0	68,9	69,9	70,6

Employed	2 504	2 335	2 367	2 372	2 365	2 365	2 401	2 444	2 492	2 531

Hours worked
Part-time work	238	286	288	302	307	320	330	343	351	338
Full-time work	2 267	2 047	2 078	2 069	2 057	2 044	2 071	2 099	2 140	2 192
Unknown	-	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2

Employer
Private	1 793	1 692	1 718	1 723	1 709	1 704	1 744	1 786	1 830	1 856
Local government	482	486	497	498	507	507	506	507	505	509
Central government	226	151	147	146	144	149	147	149	152	157
Unknown	3	6	5	5	6	5	3	2	4	9

Industrial status
Self-employed persons and assisting family members	388	319	307	304	304	301	303	314	314	324
Wage and salary earners	2 116	2 016	2 060	2 068	2 061	2 064	2 098	2 129	2 178	2 207
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Branch of industry (TOL 2002)
Agriculture and forestry	222	142	135	127	120	116	116	114	113	115
Manufacturing	556	494	497	491	470	458	460	465	466	460
Construction	201	149	145	148	151	148	158	162	174	184
Trade, hotels and restaurants	395	354	357	363	363	367	378	381	395	403
Transport and communications	179	172	174	169	173	172	172	181	175	174
Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation, insurance and business services	268	287	301	308	313	315	322	336	359	367
Public and other services	681	732	750	759	767	781	790	801	806	815
Industry unknown	3	7	7	7	8	7	5	4	6	13

Hours worked, million hours	4 415	I 4 019	4 009	4 000	3 948	3 992	4 000	4 055	4 112	4 211
I line across a time series shows substantial breaks in the homogeneity of a series

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour Force Survey

Table in Excel format suoluk_tyol1.xls

Last Modified: 6.4.2009

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

Source: Statistics Finland, Labour Force Survey

Table in Excel format suoluk_tyol2.xls

Last Modified: 10.3.2009

Last updated 9.11.2009

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