The table below details different types of difficulties in percentages that employers faced in 2003 and 2004 in four different spheres.
Overall, according to challenges, finding skilled workers was the most difficult thing compared to other reasons, followed by finding unskilled workers and finding technical and managerial staff. While difficulty in finding skilled and unskilled workers show a slight rise in most areas, except for commerce, difficulty in finding technical and managerial staff declined faintly.
Looking at the figures for difficulties in finding skilled workers, in 2003, commerce was the most suffered domain from this issue, with 47%, followed by manufacturing (45%), building (42), and service (41%). After a year, while the rate of finding skilled employees increased in manufacturing, building and service by 6%, 3%, and 4%, respectively, commerce experienced a mild decrease, dropping to 41%.
In 2003, in terms of difficulties in finding unskilled workers, unlike the former problem, manufacturing dominated in this section, with 26%, being 4%, 5%, and 6% higher than commerce, building, and services, in turn. As well as difficulties in finding skilled workers, except for commerce which declined to 19%, all trends represented a slight rise in 2004.
Difficulties in finding technical and managerial staff, however, had significantly lower figures in 2003. Building had the highest figures, with 14%, followed by manufacturing (8%), service (5%), and commerce (2%). After a slight decline in 2004, none of these spheres saw changes in their position.