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Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates)

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In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, Istat publishes monthly estimates of the main labour market indicators resulting from the “Labour force survey”.

In August 2016, 22,768 million persons were employed, +0.1% compared with July. Unemployed were 2,932 million, -0.1% over the previous month.

Employment rate was 57.3%, unemployment rate was 11.4% and inactivity rate was 35.2%, all unchanged over the previous month.

Youth unemployment rate (aged 15-24) was 38.8%, -0.4 percentage points over July and youth unemployment ratio in the same age group was 10.2%, -0.1 percentage points in a month.

Reference period: August 2016

Date of Issue: 30 September 2016

Next release: 3 November 2016

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