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05-07-2022 13:24

Registered Unemployed: June 2022

The unemployed persons, registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of June 2022, reached 12.332 persons. Based on the seasonally adjusted data that show the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for June 2022 increased to 13.319 persons in comparison to 12.956 in the previous month. (Table 1)

In comparison with June 2021, a decrease of 14.362 persons or 53,8% was recorded, attributed mainly to the sectors of accommodation and food service activities (a decrease of 3.222), trade (a decrease of 3.015), construction (a decrease of 947), manufacturing (a decrease of 871), transportation and storage (a decrease of 733), as well as to the decrease of 1.153 persons recorded in newcomers to the labour market. (Table 2)

Table 1

Month and Year

Registered Unemployed – Actual Data

Registered Unemployed – Seasonally Adjusted Data

2022

 

 

June

12.332

13.319

May

10.586

12.956

April

11.664

13.049

March

13.818

13.203

February

15.364

13.306

January

15.430

13.214

2021

 

 

December

14.800

13.012

November

13.977

12.780

October

10.974

12.762

September

11.324

12.697

August

16.281

16.446

July

18.950

19.225

June

26.694

27.667

May

31.287

34.483

April

32.186

33.316

March

32.933

31.457

February

32.789

30.675

January

32.333

29.636

2020

 

 

December

33.382

29.736

November

32.968

29.240

October

31.487

37.382

September

30.718

36.040

August

33.649

35.274

July

32.313

34.015

June

31.158

33.746

May

29.604

33.301

Table 2

Nace Rev.2

Economic Activity

Registered Unemployed (actual data)

June 2021

May 2022

June 2022

A

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

175

73

89

B

Mining and Quarrying

42

11

11

C

Manufacturing

1.585

734

714

D

Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply

12

5

6

E

Water Supply, Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities

90

34

33

F

Construction

1.911

977

964

G

Wholesale and Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles

4.956

1.950

1.941

H

Transportation and Storage

1.092

371

359

I

Accommodation and Food Service Activities

4.430

1.376

1.208

J

Information and Communication

713

355

380

K

Financial and Insurance Activities

1.344

708

718

L

Real Estate Activities

239

100

95

M

Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities

1.416

758

750

N

Administrative and Support Service Activities

1.067

495

483

O

Public Administration and Defense, Compulsory Social Security

1.915

671

1.472

P

Education

1.758

385

1.325

Q

Human Health and Social Work Activities

540

287

309

R

Arts, Entertainment and Recreation

575

192

233

S

Other Service Activities

720

254

334

T

Activities of Households

61

22

20

U

Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies

19

9

7

 

Newcomers

2.034

819

881

 

Total

26.694

10.586

12.332

Methodological Notes

Registered Unemployed

The number of registered unemployed concerns the persons aged 15 years and over who apply at the District and Local Labour Offices of the Department of Labour to seek employment and are registered as unemployed. These persons have to be able and available for work and must be actively looking for a job. The monthly number of registered unemployed concerns the persons who during the last day of the month have an active application for seeking employment.

The number of registered unemployed does not include self-employed or persons who seek part-time employment, nor persons who seek employment in certain areas or for a specific employer.

Seasonally Adjusted data

Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that removes the seasonal component of a time series, making more visible the underlying trend in the change of a characteristic. CYSTAT uses the JDemetra+ 2.2.2 software which was developed by Eurostat. Seasonally adjusted series are produced by the TRAMO&SEATS algorithm. It should be noted that due to seasonal adjustment the whole series with the monthly estimates is recalculated every time a new month is added in time series. As a result, estimations for the previous months are often revised. In March 2020 a readjustment of the applied model was implemented.

Recent Methodological Changes

According to information provided by the Department of Labour, from Tuesday June 15, 2021, the automatic renewal of registrations was terminated and the online platform of the Public Employment Service was activated to allow the registration of a new job application, its renewal, as well as a job vacancy registration. This new settlement may affect the comparison of the monthly unemployment data recorded through the new procedure with the data recorded from the previous procedures. It is currently being evaluated by the Department of Labour.

Classification System

Registered unemployed by economic activity are published based on the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2 (NACE Rev.2).

For more information:

CYSTAT Portal, subtheme Labour Market, CYSTAT-DB (Online Database), Predefined Tables (Excel), Methodological Information

The data included in the Predefined Tables in Excel format are available up to December 2021. Data from January 2022 onwards are available only in the CYSTAT-DB Online Database.

Contact:

Christophoros Michaelides: Tel: +35722602154, Email.: cmichaelides@cystat.mof.gov.cy

Maria Hadjiprokopi: Tel: +35722602146, Email: mhadjiprokopi@cystat.mof.gov.cy

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