Employment in July 2010: Next Year on Year Growth

Wiesbaden – According to first calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) was in the reporting month of July 2010 – as in the two months before – in Germany again recorded an increase in employment over the previous year. In July 2010, after 40.2 million people were in employment whose place of residence in Germany. These were 141 000 persons or 0.4% more than in July 2009. In May 2010, had the number of employed persons by 0.2% in June 2010 located by 0.3% over the previous year.

Compared with the previous month, June 2010, the number of employed persons reached in July 2010 by 65 000 (- 0.2%) lower. A slight drop in the employment numbers from June to July is seasonal and usually does not indicate a reversal of the favorable trends dar. This underlines the view of the seasonally adjusted figures were: When adjusted suppression usual seasonal fluctuations in July 2010 in Germany, 40.3 million persons employed. Compared to the previous month in June, this means a seasonally adjusted increase of 9000 persons (0.0%).

The annual results and further monthly results, including the number of unemployed according to internationally comparable approach to the Internet at http://www.destatis.de, Path: themes – are> Labour market -> ILO labor market statistics available. At this point, are also detailed methodological notes on the ILO labor market statistics and the Labour Force Survey or the micro-census are available