63.2% of the population in Latvia were employed in Q1

• Published date: 25 May 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, May 25 (LETA) - In Latvia 869,300 people or 63.2 percent of the population aged 1574 were employed in the first quarter of 2022, according to results of the Labor Force Survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau.

Moreover, the number of employed persons in the age group 7589 constituted 4,500. The statistics in this press release covers people aged 1574 (included).

Over the year, the employment rate grew by 1.6 percentage points and number of employed persons by 16,100 people. Compared to the previous quarter, employment rate went up by 0.5 percentage points and number of employed persons by 5,100 people.

In the first quarter, employment rate among males was 5.3 percentage points higher than among females (66 percent and 60.7 percent, respectively).

Regardless since the third quarter of 2012 Latvian employment rate exceeds the European Union (EU) average (in Q4 2021 60.4 percent), in the first quarter it was the lowest among the Baltic states (69 percent in Estonia and 65.2 percent in Lithuania).

In the first quarter of 2022, employment rate among young people (aged 1524) constituted 29 percent, which is 3.5 percentage points higher than in the corresponding period a year ago. The number of employed young people accounted for 50,600 (43,700 in the first quarter of 2021).

In the first quarter of 2022, persons employed in the main job worked on average 38.4 hours per week, which is 0.4 hours more than in the previous quarter and 0.6 hours more than a year ago.

Each twelfth employed person (71,600 or 8.2 percent) worked part-time, which is 10,500 people or 1.4 percentage points fewer than in the corresponding period a year ago and 5,300 people or 0.5 percentage points more than in the previous quarter.

In the first quarter of 2022, 17.5 percent of employees (133,400) worked remotely. It is 34,200 people or 5.1 percentage...