The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has published its comparison of data from November 2008 with the same month in the previous year. According to the data, the number of unemployed rose by 645,000 people, leading to a total of 2 million 995 thousand unemployed.
Unemployment among the young has risen from 20 percent to 23.9 percent. Both in cities and rural areas, total unemployment has risen by 2.2 percent, to 14.2 percent in the cities, and 9.3 in rural areas.
As economicst Mustafa Sönmez has pointed out in previous bianet articles, TÜİK does not count those not actively seeking work as unemployed, which means that the real rate of unemployment is higher.
According to the TÜİK statistics,
Again, according to TÜİK:
Unfortunately, 44.5 percent of those working are not registered with any social security institution. Although there is a slight decline in this rate compared to last year, there is still evidence of much labour without insurance. In the agricultural sector, this is particularly striking; nine out of ten workers have no social security.
Only one in four women works, while 71 percent of males work. As education levels rise, this inequality becomes less marked; 71 percent of female and 89 percent of male university graduates work. (EÜ/AG)