Oviedo(EFE) the labor market of the Principality.
With data from 2022, the service sector already represents 77.4 percent of employment in Asturias, compared to 12.9 percent for industry; 6.5 percent of the construction and 3.1 percent of the primary.
Only during the past year, the services sector was the one that gained the most jobs, 6,486, 2.2%, followed by industry, with a gain of 679 workers, 1.4%, and construction, with 539 new jobs. , 2.2%, while the primary sector lost 829 jobs, 6.4%, according to SADEI data.
Since the year 2000, the only sector that has grown in employment in Asturias is that of services, which has since gained 75,200 workers, up to 297,906 last year.
Faced with this, the primary sector has lost some 26,000 jobs since the beginning of the century, up to 12,044 in 2022; construction, close to 18,000, up to 25,179, and industry, more than 12,000, up to 49,589.
The report recalls that construction was the sector “hardest hit by the 2008 crisis”, so that between 2007 and 2013 it went from 52,969 to 22,332 jobs, representing a loss of 58%. EFE