labour market in figures, end of January 2009
registered youth unemployment*) unemployment 50 yrs.and more long term unemployment **) persons apprentice-
Region unemployed persons percentage percentage percentage unemployment rate vacancies seeking ship
of total- of total- of total- apprentice- vacancies
Total Men Women absolute unemployed absolute unemployed absolute unemployed Jan. 09*** Jan. 08 ship places
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Burgenland 12,029 7,902 4,127 1,633 13.6% 3,028 25.2% 243 2.0% 12.5% 11.8% 376 136 40
Carinthia 27,149 18,520 8,629 3,977 14.6% 5,492 20.2% 684 2.5% 12.1% 10.1% 1,614 453 298
Lower Austria 53,375 34,510 18,865 8,818 16.5% 11,466 21.5% 2,003 3.8% 8.9% 8.3% 3,998 964 281
Upper Austria 36,098 23,473 12,625 6,994 19.4% 6,074 16.8% 44 0.1% 5.8% 4.8% 6,254 633 738
Salzburg 13,963 9,890 4,073 2,352 16.8% 2,646 19.0% 195 1.4% 5.5% 4.4% 2,239 229 473
Styria 49,455 33,597 15,858 7,799 15.8% 8,825 17.8% 1,192 2.4% 9.7% 8.4% 2,755 719 197
Tirol 19,909 14,438 5,471 3,664 18.4% 3,389 17.0% 355 1.8% 6.1% 5.3% 2,578 326 454
Vorarlberg 10,386 5,937 4,449 1,981 19.1% 1,955 18.8% 268 2.6% 6.6% 5.6% 1,423 298 183
Vienna 79,165 50,692 28,473 11,089 14.0% 16,319 20.6% 818 1.0% 9.3% 9.2% 5,574 1,318 295
AUSTRIA 301,529 198,959 102,570 48,307 16.0% 59,194 19.6% 5,802 1.9% 8.3% 7.5% 26,811 5,076 2,959
December 2008 287,147 184,329 102,818 46,498 16.2% 55,369 19.3% 5,880 2.0% 7.9% 30,313 5,305 2,827
January 2008 268,752 172,148 96,604 39,320 14.6% 54,426 20.3% 6,250 2.3% 7.5% 34,025 4,838 3,097
Change January 2009/2008
absolute + 32,777 + 26,811 + 5,966 + 8,987 + 1.4%Pkt. + 4,768 - 0.6%Pkt. - 448 - 0.4%Pkt. + 0.8%Pkt. - 7,214 + 238 - 138
change in % + 12.2% + 15.6% + 6.2% + 22.9% + 8.8% - 7.2% - 21.2% + 4.9% - 4.5%
data sources: AMS Austria, HV *) less than 25 years **) unemployed for more than 1year ***) provisional
labour market monitoring and statistics