Rates of employment, unemployment and economic activity - January 2019
January Unemployment Rate Remained at 2.2%
Publication Date: 01. 03. 2019
Product Code: 250146-19
The employment rate of the aged 15–64 years (the share of the employed persons in the age group 15–64 years, as percentage), seasonally adjusted, reached 75.4% in January 2019 and increased by 0.9 percentage point (p.p.) compared to that in January 2018. The male employment rate was 82.1%; the female employment rate was 68.3%, both seasonally adjusted. The employment rate of persons aged 15–29 years, seasonally adjusted, was 49.4%, in the age group 30–49 years it attained 88.4%, and in the age group 50–64 years it got to 75.2%.
The general unemployment rate of the aged 15–64 years (the share of the unemployed in the labour force, that is in the total number of the employed and the unemployed (that means economically active persons), as percentage), seasonally adjusted, reached 2.2% in January 2019 and decreased by 0.3 p.p., year-on-year. The male unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, attained 1.8%; the female unemployment rate reached 2.6%.
“Labour market indicators have stabilised. The unemployment rate in the winter season is steady around 2.2%. The employment rate value in the recent three months has been also the same at 75.4% for working age persons,” said Dalibor Holý, Director of Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Department of the Czech Statistical Office.
The economic activity rate of the aged 15–64 years (the share of the number of the economically active in the total number of persons of this age group, as percentage), seasonally adjusted, reached 77.0% and rose by 0.8 p.p. compared to that in January 2018. Following the seasonal adjustment, the male economic activity rate (83.7%) exceeds the female economic activity rate by 13.5 p.p.
Eurostat in its press release publishes the monthly unemployment rate, identical in terms of the methodology applied, but for the age group 15–74 years. In the Czech Republic, the general unemployment rate for the aged 15–74 years in January 2019 was 2.1%, while the data are based on the Labour Force Sample Survey results for the corresponding month.
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Responsible head at the CZSO: Dalibor Holý, Director of Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department, phone: +420 274052694, e-mail: dalibor.holy@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Ilona Mendlová, Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department, phone: +420 274054380, e-mail: ilona.mendlova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO, Labour Force Sample Survey (LFSS), which is conducted in selected dwelling households; collective accommodation establishments are not included in the survey. The LFSS results have been grossed up to the total population of the Czech Republic using data of the population statistics as at 1 January 2018 and the prediction of the population development in the following thirteen months.
Time series are updated in the course of seasonal adjustment as the whole series.
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