Work in Camagüey maintains rate of last years

By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

Although most of the nations reduced their employment expectations for the economic crisis, the county of Camagüey occupied 11 thousand people in the year, a similar quantity to that of the last times.

The Direction of Work and Social security in the territory predicted that when concluding the period the incorporation of residents to different work options will be of the order of the 15 thousand.

Martha Adán who directs that sphere in Camagüey, pointed out that such an indicator has an equivalent behavior to the precedent years, in spite of the decrease of the investments for the financial limitations of the country for the global situation.

As informed the AIN, the unemployment rate is inferior to three percent.

The National Office of Statistics published in its Annual of the 2008 that in that meter the county reported 1,4 percent, against 2,0 of the 2007.

The biggest offer of squares was carried out in the agricultural activity, in correspondence with the priority that gives Cuba to the production of foods.

She also mentioned the construction, mainly with the reception of youths to prepare them in specialties directed to the rehabilitation of the residence bottom, strongly hit by the hurricanes of last year.

She added that there are more employment guarantees in these fronts and assured that those more than three thousand 300 graduate of polytechnic schools and of the University of Camagüey received their corresponding employment.

Consulted by the AIN, Luis Naples, vice-president in the territory of the National Association of Economists and Accountants, considered that the agricultural sectors and of the construction have not been all the attractive ones to increase the work force.

If one has another offer, doesn't leave to the agriculture, expressed and pointed out that there are material reasons that impact in the purpose of elevating the occupation in the agricultural sphere, the main economic activity of the county.

It also estimated that the structure of the population residence doesn't favor that necessity, because 75,8 percent lives in the cities and only the 24,2 in the rural area.