Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in April 2015
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Released: 2015-07-21
Businesses reported 243,000 job vacancies in April, little changed compared with April 2014. For every job vacancy, there were 5.7 unemployed people, down from 6.2 recorded 12 months earlier.
The national job vacancy rate was 1.6% in April, similar to the rate posted one year earlier.
Note to readers
Monthly data are based on three-month moving averages. For example, data for the current month are based on an average of the data from the current month and the previous two months.
Data on job vacancies are not seasonally adjusted and should only be compared on a year-over-year basis. Given this is a new data series, long-term trends are not yet available; therefore, data should be interpreted with caution.
With each release, data for the current reference month are subject to revision. Data for the previous month have been revised. Users are encouraged to request and use the most up-to-date data for each month.
The differences between estimates presented in the text are statistically significant at the 68% confidence level.
Upcoming releases
The job vacancies release for May will be on August 18.
On August 13, the first quarter of job vacancy data by occupation, collected through the new Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (survey number 5217), will be released.
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