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Moderate growth in job vacancies
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Job vacancies, Q3 2011

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Moderate growth in job vacancies

There were 68 000 job vacancies in the 3rd quarter of 2011. This is a growth of 4 100 from the same quarter last year. The majority of the growth took place in the private sector.

Job vacancy rates in selected countries, in per cent of the number of posts (job vacancies + occupied posts). All industries except agriculture, forestry and fishing. 1st quarter 2010-2nd quarter 2011

Of all the major industry divisions, the growth of job vacancies was largest in the administrative and support service activities, with 2 300. The industries information and communication and mining and quarrying both had a growth of 600, while construction had a decline of 1 400 job vacancies. In the industries where the public sector is dominant, there was a decline in job vacancies in education of 300, while the industries human health services, residential care activities and social work without accommodation had a decline of 200.

Most job vacancies in domestic trade

Domestic trade had the most job vacancies in the 3rd quarter of 2011, with 9 700. Then followed administrative and support service activities with 9 300 and residential care with 8 400 job vacancies. The industries with the largest number of employees generally have the largest number of job vacancies. However, in times when the economy is rising, an industry will tend to have more job vacancies.

Vacant job - definition

The vacancy must be announced, formally or informally. Formal announcements include, for example, advertisements in newspapers, on the Internet, notifying the public employment services or private employment agencies. Informal announcements include, for example, advertisements in shop windows or public notice boards, or announcements via employees, friends or family. Job vacancies exclusively open to internal applicants (within the enterprise, organisation or corporation) are not included in this definition of job vacancies. The post must be paid.

Rate of job vacancy - definition

The number of job vacancies as a percentage of the number of employees + the number of job vacancies.

The percentage of job vacancies up to 2.7

All major industries together had a growth rate of 0.1 percentage points, up to 2.7 per cent, from the 3rd quarter of 2010 to the 3rd quarter of 2011. The rate of job vacancies was 6.6 per cent in administrative and support service activities, which is a growth of 1.4 percentage points from the previous year. Other industries with a high rate of job vacancies were residential care activities with 5.6 per cent and professional, scientific and technical activities with 3.8 per cent. Information and communication had 3.4 per cent and mining and quarrying had 3.2 per cent job vacancies. Education had a relatively low rate of job vacancies, with 1.3 per cent. This is probably due to the fact that the schools announce most of their job vacancies in the 2nd quarter.

Norway had the largest percentage of job vacancies in Europe

Among the countries in the EU/EEA area, Norway had the largest rate of job vacancies; 3.2 per cent in the 2nd quarter of 2011. The comparison with other countries is based on the 2nd quarter of 2011, as the 3rd quarter figures are not yet published.

Germany had a rate of 2.5 per cent job vacancies. Sweden had a rate of 1.8 per cent and the EU countries combined had a rate of 1.5 per cent. Agriculture, forestry and fishing are excluded from this international comparison. For more information is available on Eurostat’s website .

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