Employment and unemployment (monthly)

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”.

Istat estimates that 23.0 million persons were employed in May 2012 (provisional data). Employment rate was 57.1%, unemployment rate 10.1% and inactivity rate 36.5%.