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Published: 14 February 2013

Fewer open job vacancies in the last quarter than one year earlier

According to the Job Vacancy Survey of Statistics Finland, there were 32,300 open job vacancies in the last quarter of 2012, which is less than one year earlier (33,500). The measurement for the last quarter was taken on 1 December. In the whole of 2012, there were, however, seven per cent more open job vacancies, on the average, than in 2011.

Job vacancies 2011/IV – 2012/IV

	Year/Quarter		Year
	2011/IV	2012/IV	2011	2012
Job vacancies	33 500	32 300	45 600	48 600
Part-time	15 %	19 %	20 %	17 %
Fixed term	33 %	38 %	44 %	46 %
Hard-to-fill vacancies	45 %	35 %	40 %	37 %
Annual figures on job vacancies are averages of quarterly figures.

In all, 19,700, or 61 per cent, of the job vacancies in the last quarter of 2012 were in private enterprises. Compared with the quarter one year earlier, the number of job vacancies decreased especially in manufacturing, mining and other manufacturing activities (-1,100), in professional, scientific and technical activities, and in administrative and support service activities (-800), and in construction (-800), but increased in public administration and defence, education, health and social work (+2,600). Examined by area, open job vacancies went down in the Helsinki-Uusimaa region (-3,500), but grew elsewhere in the major region of Southern Finland (+2,400).

In the last quarter of 2012, the proportion of part-time vacancies among all vacancies increased by four percentage points and that of fixed-term vacancies by five percentage points from the respective quarter of the year before. Thirty-five per cent of open job vacancies were hard-to-fill, which is ten percentage points less 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.

The sampling method and production system of the Job Vacancy Survey are being renewed. Data based on the new method will be released on 7 June 2013. More detailed information on the changes will be published on the internet pages of job vacancies http://www.stat.fi/til/atp/laa.html. (in Finnish)

Source: Job vacancy survey 2012, 4th quarter. 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 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 2. Job vacancies by size of the local kind of activity unit 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 3. Job vacancies by employer sector of the local kind of activity unit 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 4. Job vacancies by major region (2012) 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 5. Job vacancies by industry (TOL 2008) 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 6. Part-time vacancies by major region (2012) 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 7. Fixed-term vacancies by major region (2012) 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)
• Appendix table 8. Hard-to-fill vacancies by major region (2012) 2011/IV - 2012/IV (14.2.2013)

Figures

• Appendix figure 1. Job vacancies by the quarters (14.2.2013)
• Appendix figure 2. Job vacancies by type of employment relationship (14.2.2013)
• Appendix figure 3. Job vacancies by employer sector (14.2.2013)
• Appendix figure 4. Job vacancies by size of the local kind of activity unit (14.2.2013)
• Appendix figure 5. Job vacancies by major region (2012) (14.2.2013)
• Appendix figure 6. Job vacancies by industry (TOL 2008) (14.2.2013)

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Updated 14.2.2013