Registered full-time employment increased by four per cent in October when compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, while registered part-time employment as a primary job rose by four per cent.

Administrative data provided by the Employment and Training Corporation showed that over a year, the labour supply (excluding part-timers) increased by 2.9 per cent, reaching 177,792. This was mainly attributed to an increase in the full-time gainfully occupied population (6,699) and a drop in registered unemployment (1,680).

Registered full-time employment in the private sector went up by 6,709 persons to 128,327. Public sector fulltime employment decreased by 10 persons to 44,549.

The number of persons registered as full-time self-employed rose by 609 when compared to October 2014, while the number of persons registered as employees increased by 6,090. Full-time employment for males and females went up by 2.9 per cent and six per cent respectively over 2014 levels.

Registered part-time employment in October went up by 5.3 per cent when compared to a year earlier.

The number of part-timers who also held a full-time job amounted to 24,481, up by 7.3 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2014.

Employed persons whose part-time job was their primary occupation totalled 35,015, up by four per cent or 1,346 persons when compared to 2014.