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The unemployment rate for the seven
main metropolitan areas stood at16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2001, 1.2 percentage points
lower than the observed in the previous quarter, due to the reduction of 47 thousand
unemployed persons. Likewise, the number of employed persons increased in 278 thousand,
resulting in a whole of the occupied population of 6.3 million persons. The quarterly
unemployment rate for the seven principal metropolitan areas was 0.1 and 3.0 percentage
points higher than the one observed for the thirteen cities and the national whole
respectively. The cities that registered the major quarterly unemployment rate, were
Ibagué 21.5%, Pasto 18.9%, Barranquilla 17.5%, Pereira 17.4% and Bogotá 17.0. On the
contrary, the cities that presented minor unemployment rates were Cúcuta 13.0%,
Villavicencio 14.4%, Cali 15.9%, Montería 15.4%, Cartagena 15.9%, and Medellín 16.5%.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Seven Cities and its Metropolitan Areas
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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 |
20.1 |
| 2 |
11.4 |
13.4 |
15.9 |
19.9 |
20.4 |
18.1 |
| 3 |
11.9 |
12.1 |
15.0 |
20.1 |
20.5 |
18.0 |
| 4 |
11.3 |
12.0 |
15.6 |
18.0 |
19.5 |
16.8 |
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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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