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Unoccupied job

A job vacancy is unoccupied (without an employee), when no-one is attending to the tasks in the statistical reference period or no employee has been assigned to the task, but, for example, other employees of the establishment attend to it jointly beside their own tasks. It can also be a question of a completely new task at the establishment.



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Validity of the definition

  • Valid

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

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