Unemployment rate in Sverdlovsk Region reaches 6.7%

UrBC, Moscow, December 23, 2015. Rosstat reports Sverdlovsk Region’s unemployment rate reached 6.5% in November 2015 (149,900 people out of 2.322m people of working age). In Russia on the whole, the unemployment rate is reported at 5.8%; with 65.1% of population working. This is 4.2% (180,000 people) more jobless and 0.5% (380,000 people) fewer working citizens than in October 2015 and 10.7% (422,000 people) more jobless and 0.8% (540,000 people) fewer working citizens than in November 2014. A person out of job is on average 35.6 years old; 24.3% of the unemployed are in the under-25 age

October 22, 2014. According to Rosstat, the official unemployment rate in Sverdlovsk Region stood at 6.1% in the second week of September. 69% of the local population (2,268,700 people) are economically active and 64.8% (2,130,000 people) are currently employed. 138,700 people are unemployed at the moment.

May 19, 2014. Unemployment rate in Sverdlovsk Region in February-April 2014 was estimated at 5.6% by the International Labour Organization, Sverdlovskstat’s press service says. The number of working residents came to an average of 2,261,200 people in these three months (February-April 2014), including 2,134,300 people with a job (94.4%) and 126,900 people (5.6%) without a job but one the lookout for one (the ILO classification defines them as the unemployed). 28,700 people (1.2% of the local work force) were registered as unemployed with the state-run employment agencies by the end of April

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2015. According to Sverdlovskstat, the overall unemployment rate stood at 6.4% in July 2015, while the number of those without a job rose by 7.7%. 146,152 people were registered as jobless in July 2015, compared with 134,900 people a year earlier. There are 2,284,512 people of working age in the constituency, as of July 2015, of whom 2,138,360 people have jobs. Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department reports seventy-five companies have informed them of upcoming layoffs since the start of the year. Thirty-five companies are already making a number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 3, 2015. 33,079 Sverdlovsk Region residents registered as unemployed by June 1, 2015. The overall unemployment figure rose by 200 people, up from 32,869 people on April 30, 2015, Sverdlovsk Region Labor & Employment Department reports. At the same time, the number of vacancies went up from 29,774 on April 30 to 35,125 on June 1, with the official unemployment rate at 1.45%. As for Yekaterinburg, the number of available jobs has remained nearly the same, 16,691 (against 16,768 in late April), the number of the unemployed changed from 5,512 in late April to 5,493