Valladolid (EFE).- Castilla y León lost 21,400 jobs between January and March of this year, -2.11 percent, the second worst absolute data and the third in relative terms for the autonomous community, which leaves 993,000 employed, in a quarter in which the Community recorded 15,500 more unemployed, 15.75%, which brings the unemployed to 113,800, with an unemployment rate of 10.28 percent.
According to the Active Population Survey (EPA), published this Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), in annual terms, the Community has 6,200 more jobs than between January and March 2022, and 9,300 fewer unemployed than in the same quarter of 2022.
In the national group, employment has fallen by 0.05 percent in quarterly variation and unemployment has risen by 3.43 percent, which leaves 20,452,800 employed, 11,100 less than in the previous quarter, and 3,127 ,800 unemployed, 103,800 more.
The unemployment rate at 10.28, 12.49 in the case of women
The unemployment rate in Castilla y León has gone from 8.83 percent with which it closed 2022 to that 10.28 percent, which is 8.38 in the case of men and 12.46 in the case of women. women.
The largest increases in employment in the first quarter of the year occurred in Andalucía (66,300 more), Comunidad de Madrid (31,400) and Aragón (7,300).
And the greatest decreases were recorded by Illes Balears (-38,600), Castilla y León (-21,400) and Canarias (-13,600).
In relative terms, the Communities with the greatest quarterly increase in employment are Andalucía (2.03%), Aragón (1.24%) and Cantabria (1.13%); and at the other extreme were the Balearic Islands (-6.76), Navarra (-2.61) and Castilla y León (2.11).
The fourth largest increase in unemployment in the autonomous community in absolute data
The largest quarterly drops in unemployment were registered in Andalucía (–19,100), Comunidad de Madrid (–16,200) and Principado de Asturias (–6,700).
For their part, the largest increases occurred in the Balearic Islands (48,000 more unemployed), the Canary Islands (33,500), Catalonia (20,000) and Castilla y León (15,500).
With the data for that quarter, the national unemployment rate stood at 13.26, three points more than that of Castilla y León, with 11.57 in men, 3.19 points more than in the Community, and 15 .13 in women, 2.67 points more than in Castilla y León.
The activity rate, at 54.34, the fourth lowest
The activity rate is in this first quarter of the year at 54.34 percent in Castilla y León, the fourth lowest in the autonomous community and below the 58.55 regional average.
And it was between 58.81 in Segovia and 57.77 in Burgos and 49.51 percent in Zamora, the second lowest in Spain only behind 47.58 in Orense.
By province, the unemployment rate at the end of the first quarter was between 14.12 in Zamora and 7.51 in Segovia, with 8.27 in Burgos and 9.57 in Valladolid.
Segovia, the second lowest unemployment rate in Spain, and Zamora the second lowest in activity
Segovia recorded the second lowest unemployment rate in the national provincial group, only behind Álava’s 6.35.
In Ávila it appears at 12.77, 11.07 in León, 10.39 in Palencia, 10.67 in Salamanca and 11.33 in Soria.
All provinces except Segovia lost jobs, up to 7,200 in León
Regarding jobs, all the provinces lost jobs compared to the previous quarter, except Segovia, which added 400 more; with decreases of 7,200 in León, 3,200 in Burgos, 3,000 in Soria, 2,800 in Palencia, 2,000 in Ávila, 1,900 in Zamora, 900 in Salamanca and 800 in Valladolid.
Unemployment only fell in Zamora
Regarding unemployment, it increased in all provinces, except in Zamora, with 200 fewer unemployed than in the previous quarter, with 6,500 more unemployed in León, 4,400 in Valladolid, 1,400 in Burgos, 1,300 in Soria, 1,200 in Palencia, 400 in Ávila , 300 in Salamanca and 200 in Segovia.