Labour Force Statistics of the Turkey, May 2019
Employment rate realized as 46.1%
The number of employed persons decreased by 869 thousand to 28 million 269 thousand persons in the period of May 2019 compared with the same period of the previous year. The employment rate occurred as 46.1% with 2 percentage point decrease.
The number of agricultural employment decreased by 307 thousand persons and the number of non-agricultural employment decreased by 562 thousand persons in this period. According to the distribution of employment by sector; 18.3% was employed in agriculture, 19.6% was in industry, 5.5% was in construction and 56.6% was in services. Employment in agriculture decreased by 0.5 percentage point and construction decreased by 1.7 percentage point while industry increased by 0.1 percentage point and services increased by 2 percentage point compared with the same period of the previous year.
Labour force participation rate realized as 52.9%
The number of persons in the labour force realized 32 million 426 thousand persons with 152 thousand persons increase in the period of May 2019 compared with the same period of the previous year. Labour force participation rate (LFPR) was 52.9% with 0.4 percentage point decrease. LFPR for male was 71.7% with 0.9 percentage point decrease and the rate for female was 34.4% without any change compared with the same period of the previous year.
Non-seasonally adjusted main labour force indicators, May 2018, May 2019
The rate of unregistered employment realized as 34.4%
The ratio of persons working without any social security relating to the main job occurred 34.4% with 0.7 percentage point increase in the period of May 2019 compared with the same period of the previous year. In the non-agricultural sector, the rate of unregistered employment realized as 22.8% with 0.4 percentage point increase compared to the same period of the previous year.
Public sector employment increased as 10.6%
According to data gathered by Presidency of Strategy and Budget, total public sector employment realized as 4 million 570 thousand persons with 10.6% percentage point increase in the second quarter of 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year.
Seasonally adjusted employment rate realized as 45.4% and unemployment rate realized as 14.0%
Seasonally adjusted employed persons decreased by 137 thousand persons and occured 27 million 876 thousand persons compared with the previous period. Seasonally adjusted employment rate occurred 45.4% with 0.3 percentage point decrease.
The number of seasonally adjusted unemployed persons increased by 38 thousand to 4 million 527 thousand persons in the period of May 2019 compared with the previous period. The unemployment rate was 14.0% with 0.2 percentage point increase.
Seasonally adjusted labour force participation rate was 52.8% with 0.3 percentage point decrease compared with the previous period. According to the number of employment by sector, employment in agriculture decreased by 25 thousand persons, industry decreased by 7 thousand persons, construction decreased by 44 thousand persons and services decreased by 62 thousand persons.
Seasonally adjusted main labour force indicators, May 2018 – May 2019
The next release on this subject will be on September 16, 2019.
EXPLANATIONS
In the period of May 2019, results published in this press release includes 14th-26thweeks period including April, May and June 2019.
Source: TUIK
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