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In the second quarter of 2001, the unemployment rate in the Colombian seven main
metropolitan areas was 18.1%, 1.5 percentage points lower than that showed the previous
quarter. The metropolitan areas that had the highest unemployment rates were, Pasto
(21.6%), Medellín (19%), Manizales (18.9%) and Bogotá (18%). In the same group, Cali,
Bucaramanga and Barranquilla registered the lowers unoccupied rates with, 17.6%, 17.4% and
17.0% respectively. Regarding the occupation rate, the only metropolitan area, where it
increased, was Bucaramanga with 2.8 percentage points.
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 |
| 2 |
11,4 |
13,4 |
15,9 |
19,9 |
20,4 |
18,1 |
| 3 |
11,9 |
12,1 |
15,0 |
20,1 |
20,5 |
|
| 4 |
11,3 |
12,0 |
15,6 |
18,0 |
19,7 p |
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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). |
