Employment Banten August 2015

The labor force in August 2015 reached 5.34 million, a decrease of three thousand people compared to the total labor force in August 2014..

The number of people working in August 2015 amounted to 4.83 million, a decrease of 29 thousand people when compared to the situation in August 2014. In the same period also recorded an increase in the number of open unemployment by 25 thousand people, causing Unemployment Rate (TPT) rose from 9.07 percent to 9.55 percent.

During the last year (August 2014 - August 2015), Industrial sector, Community Services sector, and the sector Other (Mining and Quarrying sector and the sector of Electricity, Water and Gas) has decreased the number of workers. The undertaking with the highest employment contained in the Industrial sector and trade, hotels and restaurants, each of which absorbs 1.20 million and 1.19 million people, or about a quarter of the working population (24.84 percent and 24.66 percent).