Wed, 02 Apr, 2014 12:03:44 AM FTimes Report, April 2  Change from the previous year in the number of employed persons by sex in 1993-2013, persons aged 15 to 74. Source: Statistics Finland. The number of employed persons in Finland was 2,457,000 in 2013, which was 27,000 fewer than that of the previous year.
In turn, the number of unemployed persons grew by 12,000 persons from the year before, according to the Labour Force Survey of Statistics Finland.
The unemployment rate was, on average, 8.2 per cent in 2013, having been 7.7 per cent in 2012.
In 2013, the average number of unemployed persons was 219,000, the survey finds.
Unlike in the two previous years, women's employment rate also weakened from 2012 to 2013.
The number of employed women decreased by 11,000 persons and that of employed men by 16,000 persons compared to 2012, according to the statistics.
Men’s employment rate was 69.2 per cent and women’s 67.8 per cent. Men's employment rate went down by 0.6 percentage points and women's by 0.3 percentage points from 2012.
In 2013, besides unemployed persons, there were 124,000 persons in the inactive population in so-called disguised unemployment, who could have accepted work, but had not looked for it actively.
The number of persons in disguised unemployment grew by 11,000 from 2012, the statistics say.
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