Table

Employment and unemployment for persons aged 15-74. Seasonally-adjusted series¹
	January 2017	Change from the previous non-overlapping three-month period
¹Three-month average named by the middle month.
Unemployed persons	115 000	-17 000
In per cent of the labour force	4.2	-0.6

Employed persons	2 640 000	-11 000
In per cent of the population	66.8	-0.4