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Published: 15 February 2012

Number of open job vacancies in the last quarter equal to one year earlier

According to the Job Vacancy Survey of Statistics Finland, there were 33,500 open job vacancies in the last quarter of 2011, which is almost equal to one year ago (32,700). The measurement for the last quarter was taken on 1 December. In the whole of 2011, there were nine per cent more open job vacancies, on the average, than in 2010.

Job vacancies 2010/IV – 2011/IV

	Year/Quarter		Year
	2010/IV	2011/IV	2010	2011
Job vacancies	32 700	33 500	42 000	45 600
Part-time	15 %	15 %	26 %	20 %
Fixed term	37 %	33 %	55 %	44 %
Hard-to-fill vacancies	42 %	45 %	37 %	40 %
Aannual figures are averages of the quarterly figures.

In all, 23,900, or 71 per cent, of the job vacancies in the last quarter of 2011 were in private enterprises. Examined by industry, changes from the quarter one year ago were fairly small. Compared to the last quarter of 2010, open job vacancies increased in Uusimaa (1,400) and Northern Finland (1,200).

In the last quarter of 2011, the share of part-time vacancies among all vacancies remained unchanged but the share of fixed-term vacancies decreased by four percentage points from the year before. Forty-five per cent of open job vacancies were hard-to-fill, which is slightly more than in the last quarter of the year before.

Statistics Finland has been collecting data on job vacancies quarterly since the beginning of 2002. The statistics are based on a sample of establishments of enterprises and general government. The data are collected with telephone interviews and web questionnaires. The statistics are decreed by a regulation of the European Union. The objective is to produce up-to-date and comparable information about the number and structure of job openings on the labour markets of EU Member States.

Source: Job vacancy survey 2011, 4th quarter 2010. Statistics Finland.

Inquiries: Antti Halmetoja 09 1734 3763, tyovoimatutkimus@stat.fi

Director in charge: Riitta Harala

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• Appendix table 1. Job vacancies by the quarters 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 2. Job vacancies by size of the local kind of activity unit 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 3. Job vacancies by employer sector of the local kind of activity unit 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 4. Job vacancies by province 2010/IV - 2011/IV 1) (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 5. Job vacancies by industry 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 6. Part-time vacancies by province 2010/IV - 2011/IV 1) (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 7. Part-time vacancies by industry 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 8. Fixed-term vacancies by province 2010/IV - 2011/IV 1) (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 9. Fixed-term vacancies by industry 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 10. Hard-to-fill vacancies by province 2010/IV - 2011/IV 1) (15.2.2012)
• Appendix table 11. Hard-to-fill vacancies by industry 2010/IV - 2011/IV (15.2.2012)

Figures

• Appendix figure 1. Job vacancies by the quarters (15.2.2012)
• Appendix figure 2. Job vacancies by type of employment relationship (15.2.2012)
• Appendix figure 3. Job vacancies by employer sector (15.2.2012)
• Appendix figure 4. Job vacancies by size of the local kind of activity unit (15.2.2012)
• Appendix figure 5. Job vacancies by province (15.2.2012)
• Appendix figure 6. Job vacancies by industry (15.2.2012)

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Updated 16.5.2012