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In the euro area, the job vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2015 was 1.2% in industry and construction and 2.1% in services. In the EU, the rate was 1.3% in industry and construction and 2.1% in services, writes LETA/ELTA.

Job vacancy rate in Lithuania in the second quarter of 2015 stood at 1.1%. It remained the same quarter-on-quarter, but increased by 0.2%age points year-on-year.

Among the Member States for which comparable data are available, the highest job vacancy rates in the second quarter of 2015 were recorded in Belgium and Germany (both 2.7%), the United Kingdom (2.5%), the Czech Republic (2.3%) and Sweden (2.0%), and the lowest in Latvia (0.5%), Poland (0.6%), Portugal (0.7%) and Spain (0.7% in the first quarter of 2015).

Among the Member States for which data for the second quarter of 2015 are published, the job vacancy rate rose in twenty one, remained stable in three and fell in three compared to the second quarter of 2014.

The largest increases were registered in the Czech Republic (+1.1%age points), Croatia (+0.5 pp), Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (all +0.3 pp). The only decreases were recorded in Germany and Greece (both –0.1 pp) and Cyprus (-0.2 pp).