Unemployment rate
According to the Continued Household
Survey of the National Administrative Department of Statistics, the unemployment rate in
December for the seven main metropolitan areas was 19.7% in the first quarter of 2001. The
metropolitan areas that had the highest unemployment rates were Manizales (21.0%), Bogotá
(20.6%), Bucaramanga (20.5%), Medellín (20.2%), Cali (19.8%), and Pasto (18.5%), while
the lowest was in Barranquilla (12.9%). On the other hand, the occupation rate for the
seven metropolitan areas was 51.9%, where Pasto (57.3%) Bucaramanga (55.2%), Cali (53.7%)
and Bogotá (52.0%) showed the highest employment rates. Therefore, Pasto (53.3%),
Bucaramanga (51.8%), Bogotá (50.8%) and Cali (50.4%), where the four cities that had the
highest participation rates. The participation crude rate for the seven metropolitan areas
was 49.4%.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Seven Cities and its Metropolitan Areas
|
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE % 1/
END OF
QUARTER |
1990 |
1991 |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
| 1 |
10.1 |
10.7 |
10.8 |
9.7 |
10.2 |
8.1 |
| 2 |
10.9 |
10.7 |
11.2 |
9.1 |
9.8 |
9.0 |
| 3 |
10.2 |
9.8 |
9.1 |
7.8 |
7.6 |
8.7 |
| 4 |
10.6 |
9.4 |
9.8 |
7.8 |
8.0 |
9.5 |
END OF
QUARTER |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 2/ |
| 1 |
10.2 |
12.3 |
14.4 |
19.5 |
20.3
|
19,7 p |
| 2 |
11.4 |
13.4 |
15.9 |
19.9 |
20.4
|
|
| 3 |
11.9 |
12.1 |
15.0 |
20.1 |
20.5
|
|
| 4 |
11.3 |
12.0 |
15.6 |
18.0 |
19,7 p |
|
|
p:
Provisional.
1/ the unemployment rate is the percentage relation between the number of
unoccupied persons and the economically active population.
2/ In the 2000 the National Administrative Department of Statistics
revised and actualized the National Household Survey methodology now called Continued
Household Survey (CHS), which embody among others, the new concepts of occupied and
unoccupied variables. Since January 2001, in the CHS, the population's data come from the
demography projections of the Work Age Population, estimated on the 1993 census results,
instead of using the Total Population projection. Wherefore, since this date, the figures
are not comparable and the Banco de la República calculates the data of the seven
metropolitan areas (Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cali, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Manizales and
Pasto).
Source: National Administrative Department of statistics (DANE). |
