Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates)

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 February 2014 22.216 million persons were employed, -0.2% compared with January 2014. Unemployed were 3.307 million, +0.2% with respect to the previous month.