Rates of employment, unemployment and economic activity - October 2021

The employment rate of the aged 15–64 years (the percentage share of the employed in the population aged 15–64 years), seasonally adjusted, reached 75.0% in October 2021 and increased by 0.9 percentage point (p. p.) compared to that in October 2020. The male employment rate was 81.6%; the female employment rate was 68.1%, both seasonally adjusted. The employment rate of persons aged 15–29 years, seasonally adjusted, was 45.4%, in the age group of 30–49 years it reached 87.1%, and in the age group of 50–64 years it amounted to 78.4%.

The general unemployment rate of the aged 15–64 years (the percentage 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)), seasonally adjusted, reached 2.6% in October 2021 and decreased by 0.6 p. p., year-on-year. The male unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, amounted to 2.4%; the female unemployment rate reached 3.0%.

The economic activity rate of the aged 15–64 years (the percentage share of the number of the economically active in the total number of persons of this age group), seasonally adjusted, reached 77.0% and rose by 0.5 p. p. compared to that in October 2020. Following the seasonal adjustment, the male economic activity rate (83.6%) exceeded the female economic activity rate by 13.4 p. p.

“The level of economic activity kept very high during the last three months; mainly as for females it was obvious that they returned in full to the labour market. It is probably owing to the end of governmental measures, especially return of children to schools. However, the unemployment rate stabilised on a higher level, namely for both sexes, compared to the pre-covid year of 2019,” Dalibor Holý, Director of the Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), comments on the results.

Eurostat, in its press release, publishes the monthly unemployment rate, identical in terms of the methodology applied, but for the age group of 15–74 years. In the Czech Republic, the general unemployment rate for the aged 15–74 years in October 2021 was also 2.6%, while the data are based on the Labour Force Sample Survey results for the corresponding month.

Appended Tables 1 and 2 contain methodologically consistent time series of basic indicators of the labour market and seasonally adjusted absolute numbers of the employed persons and of the unemployed ones, starting in 1993. Table 3 has been added, with average numbers of hours actually worked, broken down by employees and the self-employed. This special table is not seasonally adjusted – the data can be compared only year-on-year (having in mind different numbers of working days).


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Responsible head at the CZSO: Dalibor Holý, Director of the Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 274 052 694, e-mail: dalibor.holy@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Ilona Mendlová, Unit for Labour Forces, Migration, and Equal Opportunities, phone number: (+420) 274 054 380, e-mail: ilona.mendlova@csu.gov.cz
Data source: CZSO, Labour Force Sample Survey (LFSS), which is conducted in selected private 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 2021 and the prediction of the population development in the following ten months.
Time series are updated in the course of seasonal adjustment as the whole series except for Table 3.
End of data collection: 22 November 2021
End of preliminary data processing: 26 November 2021
Next News Release will be published on: 10 January 2022