Employment in Germany up 0.9% in September on year earlier
Staff Writer |
In September 2016, roughly 43.7 million persons resident in Germany were in employment according to Destatis.
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Compared with the same month a year earlier, the number of persons in employment increased by 376,000, or 0.9%. Although employment continued to increase year on year in the summer months, it did so at a slower pace than in the first two quarters of 2016.
Especially employment subject to social insurance contributions could not continue its upward trend to the same extent as before. Roughly 1.7 million people were unemployed in September 2016, 157,000 fewer than a year earlier.
According to provisional results of the employment accounts, the number of persons in employment in September 2016 rose by 214,000, or 0.5%, on the previous month, which was due to the beginning autumn upturn.
The increase on August was slightly higher than the relevant average of the past five years (+205,000 people).
After seasonal adjustment, that is, after the elimination of the usual seasonal fluctuations, the number of persons in employment increased by 31,000, or 0.1%, in September 2016 month on month.
In addition to the first calculation of the number of persons in employment for the reference month of September 2016, the provisional monthly employment results were recalculated for the year 2016.
This involved taking account of all sources of employment statistics that had additionally become available until the time of calculation.
For the monthly employment figures, the recalculation resulted in year-on-year change rates which are by a maximum of 0.1 percentage points higher or 0.3 percentage points lower than the results published earlier.
Results of the labour force survey show that 1.65 million people were unemployed in September 2016.0
Compared with the same month a year earlier, the number declined by 157,000 or 8.8%. Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects, the number of unemployed stood at 1.77 million, which was a decline of roughly 15,000 on a month earlier. The adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1% in September 2016. ■