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The average number of employed people aged 15-74 reached 4.661 million.
In the July-September period, employment averaged 4.669 million, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. The total included 2.475 million men and 2.194 million women.
Employment in the domestic primary labor market fell by 22,000 year-on-year to 4.482 million. A further 69,000 people participated in public work programs, while 118,000 worked abroad.
Among those aged 15-64, the employment rate remained broadly unchanged at 75.6%. The rate was 79.2% for men and 72% for women.
The number of unemployed people aged 15-74 averaged 230,000 in July-September, putting the unemployment rate at 4.7%.
There were 116,000 unemployed men, with a jobless rate of 4.5%. Among women, unemployment increased year-on-year to 114,000, while the rate rose to 4.9%. KSH said the sectoral concentration of labor demand was hampering women’s employment prospects.
The average duration of job searches was 11.6 months. Some 43.1% of unemployed people had been seeking work for less than three months, down 2.5 percentage points from a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the proportion seeking work for at least a year increased by 3.3 percentage points to 32.5%.
Separate administrative figures from the National Employment Service showed that the number of registered job seekers rose 1.1% year-on-year to 223,000 at the end of September.
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