According to the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP), at the end of March, 329,521 unemployed people were registered with the employment services in mainland Portugal and the autonomous regions, “a number that represents 69.0% of a total of 477,683 job applications”.
Compared to March last year, there are 4,905 more unemployed people, although there was a drop of 9,214 compared to last February.
In relation to the same month last year, and for the absolute variation, the contributions of those registered for less than 12 months (plus 2,656), those seeking a new job (plus 4,481) and adults (plus 5,057) stood out.
As regards professional groups, the IEFP highlighted that unskilled workers (29.7%), workers in personal services, security protection, and sales (20.5%), and specialists in intellectual and scientific activities (10.1%) had the largest representation among the registered unemployed on the mainland.
In year-on-year terms, the IEFP recorded, among the groups with the greatest expression, “an increase in unemployment in the professional groups of unskilled workers (10%), specialists in intellectual and scientific activities (1.5%) and workers in personal services, security protection and sales (2.9%)”.
Conversely, there was a reduction in unemployment among administrative staff (down 8.7%) and among farmers and skilled workers in agriculture, fishing and forestry (down 16.6%).
Unemployment on the mainland rose by 1.9% in March, year-on-year, in contrast to that recorded in the autonomous regions of Madeira (-12.5%) and the Azores (-2.2%).
