Kepulauan Riau Province Open Unemployment Rate in February 2020 is 5.57 percent

Kepulauan Riau Province work force in February 2020 was 1,062,087 people. The number of people working in Kepulauan Riau Province in February 2020 was 1,002,917 people.

The Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) in Kepulauan Riau Province in February 2020 reached 5.57 percent, a decrease when compared to the February 2010 TPT of 6.41 percent. Viewed from the level of education, TPT for Vocational High Schools (SMK) still dominates among other education levels at 10.37 percent.

Over the past year (February 2019 - February 2020), employment increased with an increase in the percentage of the population working primarily in Education Services (1.47 percentage points), Other Services (1.04 percentage points) and Transportation and Warehousing (0.73 percent points).

In February 2020, the population working with general high school education dominated as many as 288,588 people (28.77 percent), while the population working with elementary school education and below was 250,670 people (24.99 percent) and the population working with junior high school education was 148,938 people (14,85 percent).

Based on the number of hours worked in February 2020, as many as 813,955 (81.16 percent) worked above 35 hours per week, while the population working with less than 15 hours per week reached 44,829 people (4.47 percent).