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Unemployed and underemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and desired working hours per week. Number of man-weeks (of 37,5 hours) supplied (LFS). 1 000
	Annual average		4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020
	2018	2019	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020
¹Includes the number of man-weeks desired by the unemployed persons and the desired man-weeks minus the present man-weeks of the underemployed persons
Both sexes
Unemployed persons
Total	108	106	98	108	97	109	108	103
1-19 hours	19	21	20	26	13	20	24	25
20-36 hours	24	21	22	19	21	23	20	17
37 hours or more	65	64	56	64	63	66	64	60
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	32	32	31	31	33	32	31	31
Number of man-weeks desired	92	89	82	89	86	92	88	84
Underemployed persons
Total	66	69	72	64	70	76	68	75
1-19 hours	5	5	5	7	5	3	5	6
20-36 hours	25	26	27	24	24	28	26	28
37 hours or more	36	39	40	34	40	44	37	41
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	34	33	34	34	33	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	25	26	28	26	26	29	23	27

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	117	115	110	115	112	121	111	111

Males
Unemployed persons
Total	61	60	50	60	56	59	65	57
1-19 hours	7	8	6	12	3	5	12	11
20-36 hours	10	9	6	7	10	10	9	5
37 hours or more	43	43	37	41	43	45	43	40
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	33	34	32	35	34	32	33
Number of man-weeks desired	55	53	45	52	53	53	55	49
Underemployed persons
Total	21	22	23	22	21	25	21	27
1-19 hours	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3
20-36 hours	6	7	7	7	5	7	7	8
37 hours or more	13	14	14	12	14	15	12	16
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	33	34	32	34	34	32	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	9	9	10	9	8	9	7	11

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	64	62	55	61	61	62	62	60

Women
Unemployed persons
Total	47	46	48	48	40	50	43	46
1-19 hours	12	13	14	14	9	15	12	14
20-36 hours	14	12	15	11	11	13	11	12
37 hours or more	22	21	19	23	20	22	20	20
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	30	29	29	29	31	29	29	28
Number of man-weeks desired	38	36	37	37	33	39	33	35
Underemployed persons
Total	45	47	50	42	49	51	47	48
1-19 hours	3	3	4	4	4	1	3	3
20-36 hours	19	19	20	17	19	21	19	20
37 hours or more	23	25	26	22	26	29	25	24
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	34	33	33	35	34	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	16	18	18	16	18	19	16	17

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	54	54	55	53	51	58	49	52