​Registered Employment: April-May 2020

7 January 2021 | 1100 hrs | 001/2021

In May 2020, registered full-time employment increased by 6.7 per cent while part-time employment as a primary job decreased by 8.6 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2019.

Registered Employment: April-May 2020

Administrative data provided by Jobsplus shows that, over a period of one year, the labour supply excluding part-timers in May 2020 increased by 7.9 per cent, reaching 235,309 (see methodological note 5). This was mainly attributed to a year-on-year increase in the full-time registered employment (14,447) and an increase in registered unemployment (2,740) (Table 1).

Registered full-time employment

When May 2020 is compared to May 2019, the highest increase in full-time employment was brought about by administrative and support service activities (NACE 77-82) and human health and social work activities (NACE 86-88), with 3,292 and 1,928 respectively (Table 1). Registered full-time employment in the private sector went up by 12,884 persons to 181,396. Public sector full-time employment increased by 1,563 persons to 49,504 (Table 2).

The number of persons registered as full-timeself-employed rose by 2,523 when compared to May 2019, while the number of persons registered as employees increased by 11,924. Full-time employment for males and females went up by 6.3 per cent and 7.3 per cent respectively over 2019 levels (Table 2).

Registered part-time employment

Registered part-time employment in May 2020 decreased by 2.4 per cent when compared to the same month in 2019. The human health and social services activities (NACE 86-88) followed by the professional, scientifi c and technical activities (NACE 69-75) recorded the highest increases in part-time employment with 298 and 259 respectively. On the other hand, employment within the accommodation and food services activities (NACE 55-56), decreased by 1,520 when compared to the same month last year (Table 3).

The number of part-timers who also held a full-time job amounted to 30,591, up by 5.1 per cent when compared to the corresponding month last year. Employed persons whose part-time job was their primary occupation totalled 32,070, down by 8.6 per cent when compared to 2019 (Table 4) ■

Statistics in this News Release should be interpreted in the context of the COVID-19 situation.

Compiled by: Labour Market and Information Society Statistics Unit	1
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Table 1. Full-time employment classified by period and economic activity …

NACE	Economic activity	Average	Average	April	April	May	May
division		2018	2019	2019	2020	2019	2020
01-03	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	2,398	2,556	2,531	2,478	2,541	2,475
01	Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities	1,717	1,747	1,756	1,654	1,751	1,649
02	Forestry and logging	-	-	-	-	-	-
03	Fishing and aquaculture	681	809	775	824	790	826
05-09	Mining and quarrying	377	376	373	381	373	367
05	Mining of coal and lignite	-	-	-	-	-	-
06	Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas	-	-	-	-	-	-
07	Mining of metal ores	-	-	-	-	-	-
08	Other mining and quarrying	196	202	200	203	202	203
09	Mining support service activities	181	174	173	178	171	164
10-33	Manufacturing	21,866	21,995	21,927	22,615	21,863	22,521
10	Manufacture of food products	2,668	2,681	2,686	2,602	2,680	2,595
11	Manufacture of beverages	914	902	887	908	894	890
12	Manufacture of tobacco products	15	15	15	16	15	16
13	Manufacture of textiles	334	333	333	343	331	343
14	Manufacture of wearing apparel	148	146	148	155	145	155
15	Manufacture of leather and related products	17	18	19	17	19	17
16	Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture;	348	395	390	380	392	384
	manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
17	Manufacture of paper and paper products	266	263	263	274	261	270
18	Printing and reproduction of recorded media	1,563	1,593	1,599	1,565	1,596	1,578
19	Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products	9	8	7	8	7	8
20	Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	303	287	292	282	289	285
21	Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations	994	1,030	1,021	1,000	1,016	1,000
22	Manufacture of rubber and plastic products	1,766	1,713	1,730	1,674	1,700	1,661
23	Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products	1,076	1,127	1,122	1,200	1,120	1,193
24	Manufacture of basic metals	234	265	258	219	260	217
25	Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	1,204	1,175	1,163	1,230	1,143	1,231
26	Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products	2,330	2,333	2,327	2,373	2,336	2,363
27	Manufacture of electrical equipment	537	588	589	665	578	646
28	Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.	516	520	513	549	512	541
29	Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers	1,125	1,026	1,036	1,021	1,028	1,020

… Table 1. Full-time employment classified by period and economic activity

NACE	Economic activity	Average	Average	April	April	May	May
division		2018	2019	2019	2020	2019	2020
30	Manufacture of other transport equipment	221	256	247	317	255	314
31	Manufacture of furniture	1,132	1,140	1,133	1,163	1,139	1,163
32	Other manufacturing	2,440	2,344	2,337	2,527	2,324	2,514
33	Repair and installation of machinery and equipment	1,706	1,837	1,812	2,127	1,823	2,117
35	Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	158	180	171	201	171	202
36-39	Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	1,663	1,656	1,624	1,824	1,637	1,824
36	Water collection, treatment and supply	1,218	1,172	1,172	1,190	1,170	1,187
37	Sewerage	8	9	9	9	9	9
38	Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery	394	441	410	592	425	595
39	Remediation activities and other waste management services	43	34	33	33	33	33
41-43	Construction	12,013	13,618	13,098	14,927	13,428	14,921
41	Construction of buildings	4,665	5,487	5,247	5,854	5,403	5,865
42	Civil engineering	943	1,231	1,107	1,381	1,212	1,388
43	Specialised construction activities	6,405	6,900	6,744	7,692	6,813	7,668
45-47	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	27,060	27,783	27,553	28,920	27,650	28,769
45	Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	2,481	2,584	2,552	2,838	2,575	2,823
46	Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	10,160	10,431	10,306	10,963	10,353	10,907
47	Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	14,419	14,768	14,695	15,119	14,722	15,039
49-53	Transportation and storage	11,053	11,757	11,564	12,534	11,649	12,499
49	Land transport and transport via pipelines	3,861	4,359	4,248	4,856	4,298	4,828
50	Water transport	505	507	500	494	504	496
51	Air transport	1,491	1,702	1,627	1,890	1,672	1,880
52	Warehousing and support activities for transportation	4,292	4,261	4,270	4,330	4,261	4,337
53	Postal and courier activities	904	928	919	964	914	958
55-56	Accommodation and food service activities	13,676	14,839	14,485	15,925	14,604	15,742
55	Accommodation	6,065	6,286	6,216	6,287	6,256	6,148
56	Food and beverage service activities	7,611	8,553	8,269	9,638	8,348	9,594
58-63	Information and communication	7,654	7,942	7,820	8,176	7,858	8,157
58	Publishing activities	705	847	823	893	831	887
59	Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording
	and music publishing activities	336	364	341	387	348	388
60	Programming and broadcasting activities	250	258	257	265	259	262

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… Table 1. Full-time employment classified by period and economic activity

NACE	Economic activity	Average	Average	April	April	May	May
division		2018	2019	2019	2020	2019	2020
61	Telecommunications	1,735	1,696	1,722	1,651	1,713	1,656
62	Computer programming, consultancy and related activities	3,803	3,920	3,873	3,973	3,902	3,955
63	Information service activities	825	857	804	1,007	805	1,009
64-66	Financial and insurance activities	10,722	11,292	11,148	12,082	11,185	12,000
64	Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding	7,685	8,032	7,941	8,666	7,963	8,593
65	Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security	969	1,022	1,003	1,053	1,010	1,052
66	Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities	2,068	2,238	2,204	2,363	2,212	2,355
68	Real estate activities	1,902	2,091	2,064	2,093	2,069	2,082
69-75	Professional, scientific and technical activities	14,070	15,842	15,503	16,472	15,607	16,377
69	Legal and accounting activities	4,108	4,447	4,409	4,468	4,422	4,430
70	Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities	4,675	5,547	5,413	5,670	5,449	5,613
71	Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis	2,348	2,705	2,594	3,048	2,627	3,050
72	Scientific research and development	52	66	61	80	60	81
73	Advertising and market research	1,983	2,096	2,073	2,066	2,092	2,064
74	Other professional, scientific and technical activities	790	858	837	1,000	840	995
75	Veterinary activities	114	123	116	140	117	144
77-82	Administrative and support service activities	19,159	20,802	20,163	23,705	20,425	23,717
77	Rental and leasing activities	1,519	1,670	1,620	1,634	1,641	1,614
78	Employment activities	4,733	4,711	4,600	6,172	4,594	6,162
79	Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities	1,255	1,233	1,246	1,378	1,242	1,351
80	Security and investigation activities	3,026	3,335	3,223	2,882	3,277	2,894
81	Services to buildings and landscape activities	5,067	5,833	5,597	7,075	5,682	7,061
82	Office administrative, office support and other business support activities	3,559	4,020	3,877	4,564	3,989	4,635
84	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	14,457	14,986	14,920	15,609	14,968	15,638
85	Education	17,362	17,786	17,569	18,246	17,605	18,233
86-88	Human health and social work activities	16,417	17,553	17,214	19,197	17,253	19,181
86	Human health activities	9,407	9,854	9,670	9,963	9,715	9,951
87	Residential care activities	5,556	6,164	6,055	6,638	6,031	6,630
88	Social work activities without accommodation	1,454	1,535	1,489	2,596	1,507	2,600
90-93	Arts, entertainment and recreation	9,673	10,571	10,354	10,689	10,392	10,613
90	Creative, arts and entertainment activities	693	777	761	955	764	948