Employment in The service sector has gained weight relative during the last 15 years in all the autonomous communities, to a greater extent in Catalonia and in Navarreat the expense of the construction, greatly affected by the 2008 crisis, industry and, to a lesser extent, agriculture.
Comparing the latest data on employed persons by sector, those from the EPA for the first quarter of this year, with those from 15 years earlier, when the financial crisis was already clearly noticeable, it is observed for the country as a whole an increase of 6.2 percentage points in the relative weight of the services sector in the overall labor market compared to falls of 3.6 points in construction, 1.9 in industry and 0.8 points in agriculture.
Currently Services generate 76.4% of jobs when in the first quarter of 2009 they accounted for 70.2%, while the industry has fallen from 15.2 to 13.3% of the total number of employed people throughout Spain, construction from 10.3 to 6.7% and agriculture from 4.4 to 3.6%.
In absolute figures, those of the quarterly national accounts of Spain published this week by INEin the service sector they now work 2.2 million more people than in the first quarter of 2009, in construction 550,000 less, in industry 323,000 less and in agriculture 113,000 less.
By autonomous communities
Employment in the service sector has gained weight in those years in all the autonomous communities, more in Catalonia (8.8 points, up to 76.1% of the total), Navarre (8.0) and Murcia (7.3 points) and less in The Rioja (0.9 points), Asturias (2,2) and Aragon (2.4 percentage points).
Currently, the services They represent 85.9% of those employed in the Canary Islands, 84.7% in Madrid and 79.6% in the Balearic Islands, in addition to 93.9% in Ceuta and 91.3% in Melilla, while they are only 61.0% in La Rioja, the 65.0% in Navarra and 68.4% in Aragón.
The industry
The second sector with the greatest weight in employment, industry, it has only improved relatively in Aragón (0.3 percentage points, to represent 19.7% of those employed in the community) and Asturias (0.2 points, to 15.0%), while it has given more in Catalonia (3.7 percentage points ), Navarra (3.2) and the Basque Country (3.1 points).
With these data, the industry currently generates 25.5% of jobs in Navarra and La Rioja, about 20% in the Basque Country and Aragon and between 16 and 17% in Catalonia, Castilla y León and the Valencian Community, while it is lower in the communities with greater importance in the service sector: 5.1% in the Canary Islands, 6.6% in the Balearic Islands and 8. 9% in Madrid.
Construction and agriculture
Construction, the losing sector of the 2008 crisis in terms of employment, has lost relevance since then in the overall employment in all communities, with maximums in Castilla-La Mancha (5.1 percentage points less, up to 8.8% of the total), Murcia (4.8) and Catalonia (4.7 points ).
This has meant that while 15 years ago in ten autonomous regions construction gave more than 10% Of all the employment in these communities, now only the Balearic Islands exceed this figure (13.0%), and three important economies are at the bottom of this classification: Basque Country (5.2%), Catalonia (5.9%). and Madrid (6.1%).
Finally, in only three communities did the agricultural sector has gained relative importance in employment as a whole: La Rioja (2.2 percentage points), Aragón (1.2) and Murcia (0.5 points); while in Extremadura and Cantabria it has lost 2 points.
Right now, agriculture only accounts for more than 10% of the labor market in Murcia (11.5%) and moves away from that figure in communities once traditionally agricultural areas such as Extremadura (8.0%), Andalusia (7.5%) and Galicia (6.6%).
