Turkey's unemployment down 2.1 percent in November 2010 to stand at 11 percent

ANKARA (A.A) - 15.02.2011 - Turkey's statistics authority, TurkStat, said Tuesday the country's jobless rate decreased by 2.1 percent in the period of November 2010 (covering October, November and December 2010) over a year earlier to 11 percent. Unemployment was 13.1 percent in the period of November 2009.
TurkStat said non-agricultural jobless rate was 13.7 percent while youth unemployment stood at 20.8 percent
The number of the unemployed dropped to 2,811,000 from 3,270,000 as the number of the employed rose to 22,854,000 from 21,741,000. 

The following chart shows basic seasonally unadjusted employment figures for November period for 2009 and 2010:

                                   2009/November   2010/November
                                     -------------   -------------
POPULATION (thousand)                     70,841         71,642 
Population at 15 years of age 
and above (thousand)                      52,007         52,860
WORK FORCE (thousand)                     25,011         25,665 
Employment (thousand)                    21,741         22,854 
Jobless (thousand)                        3,270          2,811  
Participation in work force (%)             48.1           48.6   
Employment rate (%)                         41.8           43.2   
Unemployment rate (%)                       13.1           11.0   
Non-agricultural unemployment (%)          16.2           13.7   
Youth unemployment (%)                     24.4           20.8   
Out of work force (thousand)              26,996         27,195