The National Statistics Office has said that in December registered full-time employment increased by 5.3 per cent, while part-time employment as a primary job increased by 5.0 per cent when compared to the previous year.

Over a period of one year, administrative data provided by Jobsplus show that the labour supply increased by 4.2 per cent, reaching 187,092.

The NSO said that his was mainly attributed to a year on year increase in the full-time gainfully occupied population (9,213) and a decline in registered unemployment (1,703).

Administrative and support service activities, +1,669 and Arts, entertainment and recreation activities, +1,541 contributed mostly to the increase in employment, compared to December 2015.

The NSO also noted that in the private sector, registered full-time employment went up by 8,506 persons to 139,019. Public sector full-time employment increased by 707 persons to 45,161.

Persons registered as full-time self-employed rose by 582 when compared to December 2015, while the number of persons registered as employees increased by 8,631 persons.

The National Statistics Office added that full-time employment for males and females went up by 4.2 per cent and 7.1 per cent respectively over 2015 levels.

There was a 5.7 per cent increase in registered part-time employment in December 2016 when compared to a year earlier, the NSO said.

Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, +595 persons, Education, +466, Transport and storage, +365 persons and Arts, entertainment and recreation, +365 persons, were the sectors that contributed most to the overall increase.

Part-timers who also held a full-time job amounted to 24,312 up by 6.6 per cent (+1,511 persons) when compared to 2015.

The total of employed persons whose part-time job was their primary occupation stood at 34,938 up by 5.0 per cent (+1,675 persons) when compared to 2015.

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