Number of vacancies |
Percentage change | |||||
| Major occupation category | Mar. 2002 |
Dec. 2002 |
Mar. 2003 |
Mar.
2003 over Mar. 2002 |
Mar.
2003 over Dec. 2002 |
|
| Managers and administrators | 410 | 410 | 510 | +25.5 |
+26.4 |
|
| Professionals | 1 270 | 1 140 | 1 100 | -12.9 |
-2.8 |
|
| Associate professionals | 7 470 | 5 480 | 5 640 | -24.5 |
+2.9 |
|
| Clerks | 4 070 | 3 350 | 3 590 | -11.9 |
+7.0 |
|
| Service workers and shop sales | 3 890 | 3 010 | 2 260 | -41.9 |
-25.0 |
|
| workers | ||||||
| Craft and related workers | 590 | 460 | 560 | -4.9 |
+22.8 |
|
| Plant and machine operators | 870 | 540 | 400 | -54.4 |
-26.9 |
|
| and assemblers | ||||||
| Elementary occupations | 2 220 | 1 840 | 1 860 | -16.0 |
+1.5 |
|
| Notes : | (1) | Figures relate only to those industries covered in the Quarterly Survey of Employment and Vacancies and the Quarterly Employment Survey of Construction Sites. |
| (2) | All figures are not seasonally adjusted. |