{"id":290470,"date":"2018-12-11T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=290470"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:03:08","slug":"south-africa-employment-declines-in-the-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/290470\/south-africa-employment-declines-in-the-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"South African employment declines in the third quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

StatsSA has released employment data for the quarter ending September 2018.<\/p>\n

It said that employment decreased by 16,000 quarter-on-quarter, from 9,749,000 in June 2018 to 9,733,000 in September 2018.<\/p>\n

This was largely due to decreases in the following industries: manufacturing (-7,000 or -0.6%), construction (-5,000 or -0.8%), mining and quarrying (-2,000 or -0.4%), trade (-2,000 or -0.1%), transport (-1,000 or -0.2%) and community services (-1,000), StatsSA said.<\/p>\n

The electricity industry remained unchanged.<\/p>\n

However, there was an increase in the business services industry (2,000 or 0.1%).<\/p>\n

Employment increased by 17,000 or 0.2% year-on-year between September 2017 and September 2018. These increases were reported by: trade (25,000 or 1.2%), community services (22,000 or 0.8%) and business services (21,000 or 0.9%), StatsSA said.<\/p>\n

The following industries reported annual decreases: construction (-22,000 or -3.5%), manufacturing (-16,000 or -1.3%), transport (-9,000 or -1.9%), mining and quarrying (-3,000 or -0.7%), and electricity industry (-1,000 or -1.6%).<\/p>\n

Employment in the non-agricultural formal sector, June 2015 – September 2018<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Employment by industry (thousand)]<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Read: These are the 25 most in-demand jobs across South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

StatsSA has released employment data for the quarter ending September 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":290476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,5769],"class_list":["post-290470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-statssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290496,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290470\/revisions\/290496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}