During the fourth quarter of 2018, registered number of the employed reached the level of 2 158 659 persons. Relative to the same quarter of the previous year, total registered employment increased by 3.4%, i.e. by 71 919 persons.
Observed by the modalities of employment, there were 2 007 001 employed in “long-term employment”, in “temporary and occasional employment” there were 75 814 persons, while the number of registered individual agricultural producers was 75 844.
Employment was primarily increased in the category of “long-term employment”, where growth of 3.7% (71 849 persons) was recorded.
Territorially observed, increased employment prevailed in Beogradski region and in Region Vojvodine.
The sections of activity with the largest increase in the number of the employed are Manufacturing (growth of 27 672 persons), Administrative and support service activities (growth of 11 061 persons), Construction (growth of 9 943 persons), Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (growth of 7 175 persons) and Accommodation and food service activities (growth of 7 128 persons).
In the mentioned period, number of the employed in public sector was decreased by 5 492.