Job vacancies

Job vacancies are positions or jobs unoccupied due to labour turnover or newly created ones that simultaneously meet the following three conditions: 1. the positions and jobs were actually unoccupied on the survey day; 2. the employer made efforts to find people willing to take up the job; 3. if adequate candidates were found to occupy the vacancies, the employer would readily take them on. Job vacancies are expressed as an average of end-of-quarter values. The job vacancy rate is calculated as the share of job vacancies in the sum of occupied jobs and job vacancies. The job vacancy rate is calculated as an averaged rate based on the number of jobs as at the end of the quarters.