The population working in August 2017 was reduced by 185.9 thousand people compared to the conditions in February 2017 and as many as 35.1 thousand people compared to the situation a year ago.
Relatively Lampung's unemployment rate shows a decline from 4.43 percent in February 2017 to 4.33 percent in August 2017. When compared to August 2016 (4.62 percent), the unemployment rate fell 0.29 points. In absolute terms the number of job seekers (open unemployment) decreased by 14.1 thousand people or decreased 7.40 percent during the last year.
Urban remains the pockets of unemployment shown by the open unemployment rate which reached 6.84 percent compared to rural areas which reached 3.33 percent. Or in absolute 78.9 thousand people in urban compared to 97.3 thousand unemployed people in rural areas.
The agricultural sector still dominates the main employment field of the population which is about 45.94 percent of the entire working population. Over the last year the number of transport, warehousing and communications workers increased by 55.2 thousand workers. Followed by the construction sector which grew by 23.3 thousand workers. The most heavily employed sectors are agriculture, plantation, forestry, hunting and fisheries of 107.8 thousand workers.
Employment status of most of the working population in Lampung Province is trying to be assisted by temporary laborers and laborers / employees / employees, each of whom is 763.3 thousand people and 1,044,5 thousand people. From this job status it is estimated that formal workers in Lampung are 29.71 percent while informal workers are 70.29 percent. The estimated proportion of informal workers in the previous year (the condition of August 2016) was 70.10 percent.
