The unemployment rate occurred as 11.1% with a 0.5 percentage point increase. 

In the same period, non-agricultural unemployment rate occurred as 13.2% with 0.4 percentage point increase.

While youth unemployment rate including persons aged 15-24 was 20.8% with 0.2 percentage point increase, the unemployment rate for persons aged 15-64 occurred as 11.4% with 0.6 percentage point increase.Employment rate realized as 48.3%The number of employed persons rose by 490 thousand to 29 million 318 thousand persons in the period of August 2018 compared with the same period of the previous year.

The employment rate occurred as 48.3% with a 0.3 percentage point increase. The number of agricultural employment decreased by 256,000 persons and the number of non-agricultural employment increased by 745,000 persons in this period.

According to the distribution of employment by sector; 19.4% was employed in agriculture, 19.5% was in industry, 7.1% was in construction and 54% was in services.

Employment in agriculture decreased by 1.3 percentage point and construction decreased by 0.8 percentage point while industry increased by 0.6 percentage point and services increased by 1.4 percentage point compared with the same period of the previous year. Labor force participation rate realized as 54.3%The number of persons in the labor force realized 32 million 989 thousand persons with 756 thousand persons increase in the period of August 2018 compared with the same period of the previous year.

Labor force participation rate (LFPR) was 54.3% with a 0.6 percentage point increase. LFPR for the male was 74.1% with 0.6 percentage point increase and the rate for the female was 34.9% with a 0.6 percentage point increase compared with the same period of the previous year.

The rate of unregistered employment realized as 34%The ratio of persons working without any social security relating to the main job occurred 34% with a 1.1 percentage point decrease in the period of August 2018 compared with the same period of the previous year.

In the non-agricultural sector, the rate of unregistered employment realized as 22.1% with a 0.1 percentage point decrease compared to the same period of the previous year.Public sector employment increased as 20.2%According to data gathered by The Ministry of Treasury and Finance, total public sector employment realized as 4 million 296 thousand persons with 20.2% percentage point increase in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the same period of the previous year.

This increase was mainly due to the fact that subcontractors, who had not previously been involved in public employment, were employed as public employees (permanent workers).Seasonally adjusted employed rate realized as 47.6% and unemployed rate realized as 11.2%Seasonally adjusted employed persons increased by 151 thousand persons and occurred 28 million 891 thousand persons compared with the previous period. Seasonally adjusted employment rate occurred 47.6% with a 0.2 percentage point increase.The number of seasonally adjusted unemployed persons increased by 57 thousand to 3 million 627 thousand persons in the period of August 2018 compared with the previous period.

The unemployment rate was 11.2% with a 0.2 percentage point increase.

The seasonally adjusted labor force participation rate was 53.5% with a 0.3 percentage point increase compared with the previous period.

According to the number of employment by sector, employment in the industry increased by 27 thousand persons, construction increased by 4 thousand persons and services increased by 156 thousand persons while agriculture decreased by 36 thousand persons.

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