• Data reference period
• Place of residence (Portugal)
• Sex
• Age group

• UNEMPLOYED:  Person aged between 15 and 74 years who during the reference period: 1) neither had a job nor were at work; 2) was available for paid employment or self-employment; 3) had actively sought work, i.e. had taken specific steps during the specified period (reference period or the three previous weeks) to seek paid employment or self-employment. The following are considered as specific steps: 1) having been in contact with a public employment office or with a private agency to find work; 2) applying to employers directly; 3) asking among friends, relatives, trade unions, etc., to find work; 4) placing, answering or studying job advertisements; 5) taking a recruitment test or examination or being interviewed; 6) looking for land, premises or equipment; 7) applying for permits, licences or financial resources. The job availability criteria are based on the following: 1) the willingness to work; 2) the desire to have paid employment or self-employment if the necessary resources can be obtained; 3) availability to start working in the reference period or at least within two weeks.
• AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
• UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT:  Cash benefit granted to workers complying, generally, with the following conditions: they were employees for a minimum of 540 working days and had their corresponding wage registered with Social Security for a period of 24 months immediately prior to the date of unemployment; they are capable and available to work; they involuntarily became unemployed; they are registered with a job centre; they paid contributions based on actual salaries.
• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).

Persons unemployed looking for a new job and receiving unemployment benefits/ Persons unemployed looking for a new job