More job vacancies

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The number of job vacancies increased by 3 800 from the 1st to the 2nd quarter in 2017. A large proportion of the growth happened in care and social work activities, but there was also an increase in some service activities dominated by the private sector.

From the 1st to the 2nd quarter of 2017, the seasonally adjusted figure of job vacancies increased by 7 per cent, according to new figures from the statistics Job vacancies. After several years with decline, there has mostly been an increase during the last year – and the level of job vacancies is now on par with the level in 2014 (see figure 1).

Figure 1. Job vacancies. Seasonally adjusted and trend-cycle figures

Seasonally adjusted Trend-cycle
Q2-2010 61400 61300
Q3-2010 65900 63300
Q4-2010 63000 63800
Q1-2011 65900 66200
Q2-2011 71400 69500
Q3-2011 70400 70100
Q4-2011 70000 69100
Q1-2012 66100 67200
Q2-2012 64900 64700
Q3-2012 63800 63900
Q4-2012 65500 65200
Q1-2013 64500 66000
Q2-2013 67500 65700
Q3-2013 61800 62400
Q4-2013 57300 58400
Q1-2014 58800 57700
Q2-2014 59100 58300
Q3-2014 57100 57800
Q4-2014 59700 57300
Q1-2015 57500 56500
Q2-2015 56700 54500
Q3-2015 52400 52500
Q4-2015 50200 51500
Q1-2016 52800 51400
Q2-2016 51300 52100
Q3-2016 55100 53500
Q4-2016 53900 55300
Q1-2017 55500 57600
Q2-2017 59300 58800

Increase in care and social work activities

A significant proportion of the increase in job vacancies happened in residential care activities and in social work activities without accommodation. Adjusted for seasonal variations, there was an increase of 1 100 and 2 900 job vacancies in these two industries respectively. There was an increase of 1 300 job vacancies in professional, scientific, technical, administrative and support service activities. In most of the other industries, there were only minor changes from the 1st to the 2nd quarter of 2017.

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