Increase in full-time positions

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In the second quarter of 2019 there were 2 719 000 employed persons in Norway. This was a year-on-year increase of 22 000. The increase was in full-time positions.

Written by: Håvard Lien

Measured as the employment rate, this increase was 0.2 percentage points, from 67.6 in the second quarter last year, to 67.8 this year. The increase is outside the margin of error in the LFS. The last time the employment rate was higher in the second quarter was in 2015. The lowest point for the employment rate during the period for which we have we have comparable data was in 2017.

The increase in the employment has been almost exclusively in full time positions, and mainly among women.

Figure 1. Employment rate, persons 15-74 years old, second quarter

Total Men Women
2006 69.2 72.5 65.9
2007 70.8 74.1 67.3
2008 71.8 74.9 68.6
2009 70.7 73.3 68.0
2010 69.4 71.8 66.9
2011 69.2 71.6 66.8
2012 69.3 71.8 66.8
2013 68.6 71.2 65.9
2014 68.7 71.2 66.2
2015 68.3 70.5 65.9
2016 67.3 69.6 65.0
2017 67.0 69.1 64.9
2018 67.6 70.2 65.0
2019 67.8 70.2 65.2

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