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”.

In October 2016, 22.753 million persons were employed, -0.1% compared with September. Unemployed were 2.989 million, -1.2% over the previous month.