The Continuous National Survey of the Labor Force (ENCFT), January-March 2022, showed that the total number of employed persons in the country reaches 4,640,113 workers in the first quarter of this year, a level close to the total occupation observed before the pandemic.
The data is offered by the Central Bank, an entity that highlights that this reflects a increase of 226,730 net employed with respect to the quarter January-March 2021 and highlights that the generation of new jobs is concentrated in women and young peoplewhich were the most affected by the pandemic.
He explains that in year-on-year terms, the 73.2% (165,950) of the aforementioned increase in employment corresponds to people of the female sex and that of the 226,730 net employed persons in twelve months, 68,848 (30.4%) correspond to young people between 15-24 years of age and 146,605 (64.7%) of 25-39 years of age.
formal and informal
During the last year it is observed that those who work in the formal sector increased by 105,913 jobs additional net income, while those who work in the informal sector they exhibited an increase of 131,045 workers.As for those employed in domestic service, they were reduced by 10,228 jobs.
The open unemployment rate or the percentage of unemployed people who are actively looking for work, stood at 6.4%, between January and March 2022 for a reduction of 1.6 percentage points compared to the level of 8.0% registered in the same period of the previous year, he said. the Central Bank and indicated that this constitutes positive news, since the unemployment rate is falling within the framework of a significant resumption of active job search work by people, as economic activity has been recovering .
