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 Job vacancies rate (%) in establishments whit 1 or mores employees
Characteristic Description
Name Job vacancies rate (%) in establishments whit 1 or mores employees by Economic activity; Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source MTSSS/GEP, Quarterly survey on vacant jobs
First available period 1st Quarter 2010
Last available period 2nd Quarter 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Economic activity
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • LOCAL UNIT:  An enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place. At or from this place economic activity is carried out for which ' save for certain exceptions ' one or more persons work (even if only part-time) for one and the same enterprise.
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • EMPLOYEE:  Person who carries out an activity under the authority and direction of another under the terms of an employment contract, whether or not subject to written form, which entitles him/her to a remuneration that does not depend on the results of the economic unit for which he/she works.
  • EMPREGO VAGO:  Emprego remunerado criado pela primeira vez, não ocupado ou prestes a ficar vago e para cuja vaga o empregador: a) está a tomar medidas ativas e preparado para tomar medidas adicionais para encontrar um candidato apropriado de fora da empresa em causa; b) pretende encontrar um candidato para preencher o lugar imediatamente ou dentro de um período de tempo específico.
Formule Estimated number of job vacancies/ (estimated number of employees + Estimated number of job vacancies)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/09/2025


information presented in 10/11/2025