[위클리오늘] Employed people who have been declining for the first year in Corona 19 “The reduction is less”

[위클리오늘=강동우 기자] Last month, the number of employed people decreased by more than 470,000 compared to the previous year, and it was found that the employment shock caused by Corona 19 continued for the first year.

In particular, while the number of people employed in the face-to-face industry continues to decline, the decline in the number of employed has decreased compared to the previous month due to the easing of social distancing from the elderly job program.

According to the’February Employment Trends’ released by the National Statistical Office on the 17th, the number of employed over the age of 15 last month decreased by 1.8% (473,000) compared to the same month of the previous year to 26.655,000.

This is a shape that has continued to decline for the first year since March of last year, when Corona 19 affected the country in earnest.

According to the data, as of last month, the number of economically active people over the age of 15 was 27718,000, a decrease of 1% (273,000) compared to the same month last year.

Their employment rate was 58.6%, down 1.4 percentage points over the same period, and the 15-64-year-old employment rate (based on OECD comparison) fell 1.5 percentage points to 64.8%.

Among them, by gender, the number of men was 15149,000, a decrease of 1.2% (186,000) compared to the same month of the previous year, and the number of women decreased by 2.5% (287,000) to 11215,000.

Looking at the increase and decrease in the number of employed people by age, first of all, 238,000 people in their 30s decreased, showing the largest decline.

Following ▲20s (-106,000 people) ▲40s (-166,000 people) ▲50s (139,000 people) gradually decreased, but it was found that the number of people aged 60 or older increased by 212,000 people.

Looking at the increase and decrease of the number of employed by industry compared to the previous year, first, the number of employed in the lodging and food service industry decreased by 232,000 (-10.2%), showing a steep decline.

Subsequently, wholesale and retail businesses decreased by 194,000 (-5.4%), and association and group repair and other personal service businesses also decreased by 84,000 (-6.8%).

On the other hand, during the same period, the number of health and social welfare services increased by 91,000 (4%), 38,000 (3.7%) for public administration, national defense, and social security administration, and 33,000 (2.7%) for agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Appeared to increase.

In addition, by occupation, the number of simple labor workers increased by 157,000 (4.5%) compared to the previous year. .

On the other hand, ▲ service workers (-248,000, -7.8%) ▲ sales workers (-196,000, -6.6%) ▲ experts and related workers (-13 million, -2.3%) showed a decrease.

Meanwhile, the number of unemployed people last month was 1353,000, an increase of 17.4% (201,000 people) compared to the same month last year.

For this reason, the unemployment rate, which is the proportion of the unemployed among the economically active population, also rose 0.8 percentage points over the same period to 4.9%.

In detail, the number of unemployed by age group increased by ▲70,000 people aged 60 or older ▲52,000 people in their 50s ▲32,000 people in their 20s ▲29,000 people in their 30s ▲15,000 people in their 40s.

The unemployment rate has also risen in all age groups, including ▲20s (1%p) ▲60s or older (1%p) ▲50s (0.9%p) ▲30s (0.7%p).

In addition, looking at the increase and decrease from the same month of the previous year for the unemployed persons with or without previous employment experience, the number of unemployed persons with no employment experience decreased by 17% (15,000 persons) to 73,000 persons. ) Appeared to increase.

In addition, the number of inactive economically inactive last month was 17269,000, an increase of 3.4% (562,000) compared to the same month of the previous year, of which 2573,000 people were classified as’rested’ by activity status, which was 9.2% ( 216,000 people).

The inactive population refers to a person over the age of 15 who is not capable of or willing to work.

Among them, a person classified as’rested’ means a person who literally just took a break without preparing for employment, doing housework, or raising children.

In particular, the number of’resting’ by age increased by 117,000 people (11.9%) among those over 60 years old, ▲15,000 people in their 20s (3.8%) ▲67,000 people in their 30s (33%) ▲3 in their 40s There was an increase in 10,000 people (15.1%).

However, 3,000 people (-6.9%) in the 15-19 year old’resting’ population decreased, and 19,000 people (-4%) in their 50s decreased.

Here, there were 752,000 job seekers, an increase of 218,000 from the same month last year, proving the serious impact of the COVID-19 employment shock.

On the day, Chung Dong-myeong, head of the Social Statistics Bureau of the Statistical Office, said, “Amid the continued decline in the number of employed, mainly in the face-to-face industry, the increase in the health and welfare industry has reduced the number of employed.”

In particular, “The decrease in the number of employed people compared to the previous month was due to the downward adjustment of the social distancing stage on the 15th of the 14th to 20th of last month during the employment trend survey period. He diagnosed.