📋 Tender Overview
The number of long-term unemployed — that is those who had been unemployed without interruption for at least a year — amounted to 91,700, up 5,800 on the previous year. The number of unemployed jobseekers over 50 years of age was 102,800, or 7,300 more than at the same time a year earlier.
Unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age numbered 32,200, representing an increase of 4,800 from January last year. In all, 53.4% of unemployed young people ended within three months of unemployment in January, which is 3.7 percentage points less than the year before.
Number of new vacancies decreased
The number of new vacancies reported during January totalled 91,200, or 23,500 fewer than in January the year before. In all, the number of unfilled vacancies in January amounted to 133,400, which was 43,100 fewer than a year ago.
At the end of January, the number of persons engaged in services included in the activation rate amounted to 113,400, up 1,900 on the previous year. These services include pay subsidies, labour market training, rehabilitative work activities and self-motivated studies.
Statistics Finland: Trend of unemployment rate 7.7 per cent
According to Statistics Finland's Labour Force Survey, the number of people in employment was 3,000 higher in January than one year earlier. The trend of the employment rate was 73.2%, which was 0.8 percentage points lower than in January the year before. According to the Survey, the unemployment total was 231,000, which is 20,000 more than a year ago. The trend of the unemployment rate was 7.7 per cent, or 0.8 percentage points higher than one year previously.
