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 Unemployment rate (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Unemployment rate (%) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024) and Sex; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
Concepts
  • LABOUR FORCE:  Population formed by all active persons.
  • UNEMPLOYMENT RATE:  Rate that defines the relation between the unemployed population and the labour force.
  • PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Place in which a person normally spends the daily period of rest (regardless of temporary absences for purposes of leisure, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment, or others) and where the person lives or intends to live for the most part of the year, taking the last 12 months as reference.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • 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).
Formule

(Unemployed population/ Active population)*100

Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 19/03/2024


information presented in 23/11/2024