Press release 180 / 2016-05-31 - 43.3 million persons in employment in April 2016
WIESBADEN – In April 2016, roughly 43.3 million persons resident in Germany were in employment according to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
Compared with the same month a year earlier, the number of persons in employment increased sharply by 548,000 or 1.3%. Roughly 1.8 million people were unemployed in April 2016, 272,000 fewer than a year earlier.
According to provisional results of the employment accounts, the number of persons in employment increased by 171,000, or 0.4%, from March to April 2016, one of the reasons being the spring upturn. The increase on March was higher than the relevant average of the past five years (+154,000 people). After seasonal adjustment, that is, after the elimination of the usual seasonal fluctuations, the number of persons in employment increased by 41,000, or 0.1%, in April 2016 month on month.
Results of the labour force survey show that 1.76 million people were unemployed in April 2016. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the number declined by 272,000 or 13.3%. Adjusted for seasonal and irregular effects, the number of unemployed stood at 1.78 million, which was a decline of roughly 16,000 on a month earlier. The adjusted unemployment rate was 4.2% again in April 2016.
Detailed data and long time series are available from the GENESIS-Online database. The data on persons in employment from employment accounts are available in tables 13321-0001 (months),13321-0002 (quarters) and 81000-0011 (years). Data on persons in employment and unemployed persons from the labour force survey can be found in tables 13231-0001 (months).
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