ANKARA (DIHA) – Unemployed rate is 25 percent and population of people who are out of work in January is 6 million according to the Confederation of Public Employee Trade Unions or KESK, on the contrary of Turkish Statistical Institute’s (TUIK) announcement said 3.5 million people are officially unemployed.

KESK objected to TUIK’s statistics on unemployment rate. According to press release made by TUIK unemployed population is 3.5 million while KESK alleged that the real number of unemployed population is 6 million.

Emirali Simsek, General Secretary of KESK, said; “AKP administration is responsible for dangerous level of unemployment. The long term economic politics to increase employment has to be practiced to solve the problem. Otherwise, increasing the rate of unemployment cannot be prevented. Turkey’s society is already end of their rope but unfortunately AKP administration too far away from recognizing the real problem. Investments related employment has to be considered as privileged investments and has to be motivated.

TUIK’s press release included the details on unemployment as follows:
Population in working age is increased. 827.000 young stepped on working age in January and become a part of huge mass jobless population in Turkey. By adding new young crowd to others the number of population in working age raised to 52.150.000 in Turkey. (By the way, Turkey’s population is 70.975.000 at the end of January, 2010.)

The labor force participation rate also increased to 47.7 percent by 1.7 point improvement.

23.8 percent of employees worked in agriculture area, 20.2 percent of in industry and 5.5 of in construction while 50.5 of them found a job in service sector in January.

The most important number among in this statistics is the rate of people who have not reached any kind of social security service which was 42.3 by 1.5 point increase.

It means that about a half of all workers in Turkey are working without access to any social security system.

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