ISTANBUL: In Turkey, 549,000 new jobs were created last year, Turkey's statistical authority announced on Monday. "Number of employed persons aged 15 years old and over realized as 28.74 million persons with 549,000 persons increase," TurkStat said.
It said employment rate was 47.4 percent -- 65.7 percent for male, and 29.4 percent for female -- last year, up 0.3 percentage points versus 2017. Of those who were employed in 2018, 18.4 percent were employed in agriculture, 19.7 percent in industry, 6.9 percent in construction and 54.9 percent were employed in service sector.
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