Unemployment rate goes up to 10.6% as of January 2013

Turkish Statistical Institute has published a report to cover unemployment in Turkey. The report goes as follows;

Number of unemployed persons increased by 226 thousand persons in the period of January 2013 (1) and has reached to 2 million 890 thousand persons in Turkey. Unemployment rate realized as 10.6% with 0.4 percentage points increase. Non-agricultural unemployment rate was realized as 12.9% with 0.5 percentage points increase and youth unemployment rate was realized as 20.7% with 2.3 percentage points increase.

Employment increased by 958 thousand

Number of employed persons increased by 958 thousand persons compared to the same period of the previous year and has reached to 24 million 433 thousand persons in the period of January 2013. Agricultural employment increased by 58 thousand persons and non-agricultural employment increased by 900 thousand persons in this period.

Of those who were employed in January 2013; 22.4% was employed in agriculture, 19.9% was employed in industry, 6.3% was employed in construction and 51.4% was employed in services. Employment in construction increased by 0.2 percentage point and services increased by 0.5 percentage point while that of agriculture decreased by 0.7 percentage point and industry decreased by 0.1 percentage.

Employment rate was realized as 44.3%

Employment rate increased from 43.2% to 44.3% with 1.1 percentage point increase compared to the same period of the previous year.

Labour force participation rate was realized as 49.5%

Labour force participation rate (LFPR) realized as 49.5% with 1.3 percentage points increase compared to the same period of the previous year for Turkey in January 2013 period. LFPR was realized as 70.4% with 0.7 percentage points increase for male and realized as 29.3% with 2.1 percentage points increase for female compared to the same period of the previous year.

15.04.2013
SOURCE: TUIK