ANKARA - Almost 12 percent of the Turkish workforce is unemployed, according to figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) on Monday. Turkey’s overall unemployment rate rose to 11.9 percent in the three month term ending in February, representing 2.796 million persons without a job.
There was an increase of 46,000 in the number of unemployed, a rise of 0.2 percent, compared with the same period a year ago.
Turkstat’s workplace survey for February showed that of those in employment 25.1 percent was employed in agriculture, 20.4 percent in industry, 4.7 percent in the construction sector and 49.8 percent in service industries. Employment in agriculture decreased by 4.8 percent while that in services increased by 3.6 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.
Of those unemployed, 75.5 percent were men, 61.3 percent had not completed high school, and 34.7 percent had been without a job for more than one year.
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