{"id":1768,"date":"2013-10-29T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:38:41","slug":"employment-levels-back-to-pre-recession-peak-but-absorption-rate-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Employment levels back to pre-recession peak but absorption rate lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/QLFS_Q32013_dataStory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1770\" alt=\"QLFS_Q32013_dataStory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/QLFS_Q32013_dataStory-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/QLFS_Q32013_dataStory-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/QLFS_Q32013_dataStory-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/QLFS_Q32013_dataStory.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Employment levels at 14 million in Q3: 2013 are now back to the Q4: 2008 peak. The working age population however, has increased by 2,3 million over the period Q4: 2008 to Q3: 2013 such that the percentage of South Africans aged 15-64 years with jobs (the absorption rate) has declined from 45,0% in Q4: 2008 to 41,9% in Q3: 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Quarter-to-quarter employment increased by 308 000 in Q3: 2013, while the number of job-seekers declined by 114 000. As a result, the official unemployment rate declined by 0,9 of a percentage point to 24,7%. Discouraged work seekers decreased by 125 000 and based on the expanded definition, the unemployment rate declined by 1,2 percentage points to 35,6%.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion in employment was driven by growth in the formal sector, where quarter-to-quarter job gains were 314\u00a0000. On the other hand, the informal sector shed 39\u00a0000 jobs in this period.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-to-quarter results show that Trade, Community and Finance and other business services were the largest contributors to the 308\u00a0000 net gain in employment. Trade gained 100\u00a0000 jobs in Q3: 2013, as employment in the industry reached 3 million in line with employment levels last seen in Q1: 2012. Community and social services gained 96\u00a0000 jobs with 3,1 million persons employed in the sector and accounting for 22,4% of total employment. Finance gained 92\u00a0000 jobs bringing the number of employed persons in the industry to 1,9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs of a permanent nature increased by 212\u00a0000 quarter-to quarter while those on contracts of a limited or \u00a0unspecified duration rose by 249 000. This may suggest that some of the job gains observed in the quarter may be temporary in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Download &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/P0211\/P02113rdQuarter2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">QLFS Publication<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment levels at 14 million in Q3: 2013 are now back to the Q4: 2008 peak. The working age population however, has increased by 2,3 million over the period Q4: 2008 to Q3: 2013 such that the percentage of South Africans aged 15-64 years with jobs (the absorption rate) has declined from 45,0% in Q4:&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1768\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-and-labour-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}