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

• UNEMPLOYED SEEKING NEW JOB:  Unemployed person who has already had a job.
• 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).
• UNEMPLOYED POPULATION:  Population formed by all unemployed persons

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