Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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pensioners work. There were 67.7 thousand working pensioners in 2001
(State Social Insurance Fund’s data).
The Department of Statistics by the Government of Lithuania every year
makes assessment of population employment, which is based on the data
reported by enterprises, institutions and organizations and data provided by
self-proprietorships and persons holding licences to carry out various kinds of
economic activities as well as by farmers, and Labour Survey.
According to the Labour Survey data there were 3692.6 thousand people
living in Lithuania in 2001, 1759.9 thousand of which were labour force (total
number of employed and unemployed). Totally 1460.6 thousand people were
employed, of which 1432.2 thousand were aged 15-64, and 299.3 thousand
people were unemployed (registered with the Labour Exchange). Full-time
workers constituted 90.2 percent of employed people. Inactive population
(working age population who do not belong to neither employed nor
unemployed) were 1225.9 thousand. Total employment rate was 48.9 percent
while employment rate of people aged 15-64 was 57.7 percent. Total
unemployment rate was 17.0 percent and unemployment rate of people aged
15-64 was 17.3 percent.
According to the assessment of population employment data the average
number of employed people in 2001 was 1521.8 thousand, from which 756.3
were males and 765.5 were females. So nearly the same figures of men and
women are working, or in another words men and women participate in the
employment equally. The biggest part of employed population works in the
services field. That is 845.4 thousand or 55.6 percent. Other big fields are
industry (20.4 percent), the biggest part of which is manufacturing (17.9
percent of employed population), and agriculture (16.7 percent).
UNEMPLOYMENT
The number of unemployed persons registered with the labour exchange on 1
September 2002 was 186.6 thousand and was 30.4 thousand or 14.0 percent
less than that on 1 September 2001. Share of female was 52 percent and the
share of male - 48 percent. The percentage of unemployed youth (under the
age of 25) was 13 percent of the total unemployed. Number of long-term