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04-01-2023 13:13

Registered Unemployed: December 2022

The unemployed persons, registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of December 2022, reached 16.132 persons. Based on the seasonally adjusted data that show the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for December 2022 increased to 14.131 persons in comparison to 14.081 in the previous month (Table 1).

In comparison with December 2021, an increase of 1.332 persons or 9,0% was recorded, attributed mainly to the sectors of accommodation and food service activities (an increase of 608), financial and insurance activities (an increase of 567), transportation and storage (an increase of 145), information and communication (an increase of 74) and human health and social work activities (an increase of 65) (Table 2).

Table 1

Month and Year

Registered Unemployed – Actual Data

Registered Unemployed – Seasonally Adjusted Data

 

 

 

2022

 

 

December

16.132

14.131

November

15.309

14.081

October

11.183

13.733

September

11.610

13.589

August

14.961

14.051

July

14.145

13.726

June

12.332

13.442

May

10.586

13.106

April

11.664

13.168

March

13.818

13.297

February

15.364

13.377

January

15.430

13.265

2021

 

 

December

14.800

13.047

November

13.977

12.763

October

10.974

12.890

September

11.324

12.838

August

16.281

16.145

July

18.950

19.072

June

26.694

27.749

May

31.287

34.470

April

32.186

33.311

March

32.933

31.452

February

32.789

30.671

January

32.333

29.631

2020

 

 

December

33.382

29.731

November

32.968

29.234

 

 

 

Table 2

NaceRev.2

Economic Activity

Registered Unemployed    

(actual data)

December

2021

November

2022

December

2022

A

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

75     

74

72     

B

Mining and Quarrying

19     

10

15     

C

Manufacturing

805     

784

784     

D

Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply

9     

10

13     

E

Water Supply, Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities

41     

27

30     

F

Construction

996     

1.028

980     

G

Wholesale and Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles

2.327     

2.239

2.237     

H

Transportation and Storage

541     

598

686     

I

Accommodation and Food Service Activities

4.436     

4.544

5.044      

J

Information and Communication

313     

395

387     

K

Financial and Insurance Activities

712     

1.145

1.279     

L

Real Estate Activities

130     

132

156     

M

Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities

784     

814

778      

N

Administrative and Support Service Activities

655     

640

686     

O

Public Administration and Defense, Compulsory Social Security

855     

727

875     

P

Education

358     

367

336     

Q

Human Health and Social Work Activities

263     

342

328     

R

Arts, Entertainment and Recreation

312     

302

321     

S

Other Service Activities

320     

302

331     

T

Activities of Households

22     

21

17     

U

Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies

13     

5

7     

 

Newcomers

814      

803

770     

 

Total

14.800     

15.309

16.132     

             

                                                                                                                  

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

(ΜΧ/IK)