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The unemployment rate (relation among the number of unemployed and the population
financially active PEA), for all seven principal metropolitan areas of the country in
September, 2001 was of 18.0%, 2.6 percentage points lower than the observed one in equal
period of 2000 and in 0.2 percentage points than the previous quarter. The city that
registered the major rate of unemployment in this period, was Cali (19.1%), higher in 1.5
percentage points to the registered one in June, 2001 (17.6%), which had been one of the
lowest. On the other hand, the metropolitan areas of Barranquilla and Medellín were those
who presented minor rates of dispossession with 16.0% and 16.4% respectively. The
remaining cities, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Manizales and Pasto, exhibit rates between 17.2%
and 18.7%.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Seven Cities and its Metropolitan Areas
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE % 1/
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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 |
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QUARTER |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
20012/ |
| 1 |
10.2 |
12.3 |
14.4 |
19.5 |
20.3
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20.1
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| 2 |
11.4 |
13.4 |
15.9 |
19.9 |
20.4
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18.1
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| 3 |
11.9 |
12.1 |
15.0 |
20.1 |
20.5
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18.0
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| 4 |
11.3 |
12.0 |
15.6 |
18.0 |
19.5 |
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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: DANE.
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