Turkish
Institute of Statistics (TÜİK) announces that number of unemployed rose to 3
million 650 thousand people and rate of unemployment reaches 15.5 percent as of
January 2009. Unemployment rate in non-agricultural sectors mounts to 19
percent. Today's announcement reveals that 1 million 59 thousand people joins
the unemployed in one year.
According
to TÜİK,
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Unemployment
rate in 15-24 age group rises to 27.9 percent from 21.2 percent between January
2008 and 2009.
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Population
in the age of employment rises to 51 million 323 thousand from 50 million 435
thousand.
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Employment
rate drops from 39,3 percent to 38,7 percent.
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Number of
people working in agriculture rises by 259 thousand. Number of people working
in non-agriculture drops by 184 thousand.
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Rate of
those who lack social security despite working is 40.8 percent. Eight out of 10
people working in agriculture and three out of ten people working in other
fields lack any social security.
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Of those
who are employed, 60.8 percent work on salaries, 27.9 percent work for
themselves and 11.3 percent are unpaid domestic workers.
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73.8
percent of the employed and 74.4 percent of the unemployed are men.(EÜ/AGÜ)