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Unemployment

Unemployment

This chapter looks at unemployment with data based on the labour force survey (LFS).

In the LFS, unemployed persons are persons who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work. It should be noted that as per Eurostat’s operational implementation, the upper age limit for classifying a person as unemployed is 74 years.

ILO Unemployment rate (%) of people aged 15 -74 by sex
Unemployment rate (%) of people aged 15 - 74 by sex
Europe ILO unemployment rate (%) of people aged 15 -74 by country and sex
Europe ILO unemployment rate (%) of people aged 15 -74 by country and sex
Number of unemployed persons (thousands) by length of unemployment and sex
Number of unemployed persons (thousands) by duration of unemployment and sex
Number of unemployed persons (thousands) by age group and sex
Unemployed persons (thousands) by Age group and sex
Unemployment rate (%) by highest level of education and sex
Unemployment rate (%) by highest level of education and sex