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Summary

In the 3rd quarter of 2023, the employed population (5,015.5 thousand people) increased by 0.5% (26.8 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 2.2% (109.2 thousand) from one year before.

The share of the employed population who has teleworked, that is, who has worked from home using information and communication technologies was 16.6% (833.0 thousand people), 1.7 percentage points (pp) less than in the 2nd quarter of 2023.

The unemployed population, estimated at 326.1 thousand people, has increased by 0.5% (1.4 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 4.4% (13.7 thousand) from a year earlier.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, the same value as in the 2nd quarter of 2023 and 0.1 pp more than in the 3rd quarter of 2022.

The labour underutilisation covered 620.9 thousand people, having decreased by 0.5% (3.4 thousand) from the previous quarter and increased by 1.7% (10.2 thousand) from a year before. The labour underutilisation rate (11.3%) has decreased from the previous quarter (0.1 pp) and remained unchanged from the same quarter of 2022.

The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,518.0 thousand people) has decreased by 0.5% (17.2 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 2.0% (73.7 thousand) in the year-on-year comparison.

See the “Methodological note on the revision of the labour force survey data: The context of the COVID-19 pandemic“