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In public sector² there were 290.3 thsd occupied posts, which is 3.8 thsd or 1.3% more than in the corresponding period of 2013.

The most rapid growth in the number of occupied posts was recorded in the following sectors: in information and communication sector (of 8.5% or 2.0 thsd), in health and social work activities (of 6.7% or 3.9 thsd), in accommodation and food service activities (of 4.8% or 1.4 thsd).

In breakdown by major occupational group, the number of occupied posts rose most rapidly in major group of skilled agricultural workers (by 6.8% or 0.4 thsd), in major group of service workers (by 5.0% or 6.7 thsd), in major group of professionals (by 4.1% or 6.1 thsd).

Annual changes in the number of occupied posts by major occupational group

Data source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

Compared to the end of 2013, the number of job vacancies at the end of 2014 had decreased by 0.4 thsd vacancies or by 9.5%, and accounted for 3.3 thsd. 2.2 thsd of job vacancies were registered in public sector, and 1.1 thsd in private sector.

Compared to the end of 2013 job vacancy rate in the country in total and in public sector has not changed and accounts for 0.4% and 0.8%, respectively. In private sector it decreased from 0.3% registered at the end of 2013 to 0.2% at the end of 2014.

Occupied posts and job vacancies by sector

More information on wages and salaries in Latvia is available in the CSB database section Labour remuneration.

Explanations

¹ Private sector includes commercial companies with central or local government capital participation of up to 50%, commercial companies of all types without central or local government capital participation, individual merchants, and agricultural holdings and fishermen farms with 50 and more employees.
² Public sector includes central and local government institutions and commercial companies with central or local government capital participation 50% and more, public organisations and commercial companies thereof.
³ Revised data.

Data on occupied posts and job vacancies are acquired from the quarterly statistical reports on the activities of businesses, individual merchants, state and local government budgetary institutions, foundations, associations and funds, as well as from administrative data sources. Only those agricultural holdings and fisherman farms that employ 50 and more employees have been included.

Data on statistical units of the private sector with fewer than 50 employees, associations and funds are acquired with random sampling, and the obtained data with the help of weights are extrapolated on all population. Data are also acquired from several administrative data sources.

In accordance with the survey methodology, job vacancy is defined as a post for which no contract has been signed and no candidate chosen, and the employer is taking active steps to find a suitable candidate from outside the enterprise, and which will be filled immediately or within three months. Job vacancy rate is calculated in per cent, by dividing the number of job vacancies by the total number of posts (occupied + vacant).

Absolute changes and percentage changes are calculated from the data not converted into thousands.