Table

Employment and unemployment for persons aged 15-74. Seasonally-adjusted series¹
	May 2016	Change from the previous non-overlapping three-month period
¹Three-month average named by the middle month.
Unemployed persons	131 000	2 000
In per cent of the labour force	4.7	0.1

Employed persons	2 640 000	-19 000
In per cent of the population	67.2	-0.6