Press release No.266 / 2010-07-29

Employment in June 2010: upward trend continues

WIESBADEN – The labour market continues to show a positive employment trend. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of persons in employment living in Germany amounted to 40.3 million in June 2010. Compared with June 2009, that was an increase of 131,000 persons or 0.3%. With a rise by 0.2%, in May 2010 the number of persons in employment was higher for the first time in twelve months than in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Compared with May 2010, the number of persons in employment rose by 41,000 in June 2010 (+ 0.1%). After seasonal adjustment, that is, after the elimination of typical seasonal variations, there was an increase of 32,000 persons (+0.1%) against May 2010.

Beyond the first calculation of the number of persons in employment for reference month June 2010, the provisional monthly, quarterly and annual employment results were also recalculated from the year 2007 as part of the regular revision of national accounts. All additional sources of employment statistics that had become available by the time of the current calculation were incorporated into the employment accounts. The recalculation of the monthly results produced year-on-year rates of change which deviated by no more than 0.1 percentage points from the results published to date.

Annual results and more monthly results, including the number of unemployed according to an internationally comparable concept, can be accessed on the Internet. Here, you will also find detailed methodological notes on the ILO labour market statistics, the labour force survey and the microcensus.

>>> Brief methodological description

Persons in employment whose place of residence is in Germany ¹⁾
Year	Month	Original values			Seasonally adjusted ²⁾
Year	Month	persons	change on previous month	change on the same month of the previous year	persons	change on previous month
¹⁾ Results of employment accounts as part of national accounting: persons in employment whose place of residence is in Germany (resident concept). The respective time series for persons in employment whose place of work is in Germany (domestic concept) are presented on the Internet. ²⁾ Seasonal adjustment by Census-X12-Arima.
		in million	in %		in million	in %
2009	January	39.900	–1.5	0.6	40.268	0.0
	February	39.918	0.0	0.5	40.283	0.0
	March	39.992	0.2	0.3	40.265	0.0
	April	40.114	0.3	0.2	40.246	0.0
	May	40.151	0.1	0.0	40.192	–0.1
	June	40.133	0.0	–0.1	40.162	–0.1
	July	40.058	–0.2	–0.2	40.158	0.0
	August	40.084	0.1	–0.4	40.126	–0.1
	September	40.351	0.7	–0.5	40.094	–0.1
	October	40.493	0.4	–0.7	40.060	–0.1
	November	40.489	0.0	–0.6	40.070	0.0
	December	40.367	–0.3	–0.4	40.139	0.2
2010	January	39.753	–1.5	–0.4	40.120	0.0
	February	39.769	0.0	–0.4	40.127	0.0
	March	39.884	0.3	–0.3	40.150	0.1
	April	40.088	0.5	–0.1	40.213	0.2
	May	40.223	0.3	0.2	40.265	0.1
	June	40.264	0.1	0.3	40.297	0.1

Detailed information and long time series on persons in employment and unemployed are available for free from the tables “Erwerbstätige” (13321-0001) and “Erwerbspersonen inklusive Erwerbslose” (13231-0001) in the Genesis-Online database.

For further information please call:
Ulf-Karsten Keil,
tel: +49 611 75 2633,

E-mail: arbeitsmarkt@destatis.de

For more details please refer to the German version.

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