In December 2015, both registered full-time employment and registered part-time employment as a primary job increased by 4.3 per cent when compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, the National Statistics Office said today.
Administrative data provided by the ETC show that over a period of one year, the labour supply (excluding part-timers) increased by 3.1 per cent, reaching 178,089. This was mainly attributed to an increase in the full-time gainfully occupied population (7,106) and a drop in registered unemployment (1,672).
In December, administrative and support service activities contributed mostly to the increase in employment, compared to December 2014. Registered full-time employment in the private sector went up by 7,064 persons to 129,020. Public sector full-time employment increased by 42 persons to 44,454.
The number of persons registered as full-time self-employed rose by 603 when compared to December 2014, while the number of persons registered as employees increased by 6,503. Full-time employment for males and females went up by 3.1 per cent and 6.4 per cent respectively over 2014 levels.
Registered part-time employment in December 2015 went up by 5.6 per cent when compared to a year earlier. The sectors that contributed mostly to the overall increase were accommodation and food service activities 667, wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 638 and transportation and storage 311.
The number of part-timers who also held a full-time job amounted to 24,162 up by 7.6 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2014. Employed persons whose part-time job was their primary occupation totalled 34,608, up by 4.3 per cent or 1,429 persons when compared to 2014.