Table

Employment and unemployment for persons aged 15-74. Seasonally-adjusted series¹
	October 2016	Change from the previous non-overlapping three-month period
¹Three-month average named by the middle month.
Unemployed persons	133 000	-6 000
In per cent of the labour force	4.8	-0.2

Employed persons	2 655 000	6 000
In per cent of the population	67.3	0.0