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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		2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020
	2018	2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd 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	97	109	108	103	129	153
1-19 hours	19	21	13	20	24	25	14	33
20-36 hours	24	21	21	23	20	17	35	32
37 hours or more	65	64	63	66	64	60	80	88
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	32	32	33	32	31	31	32	31
Number of man-weeks desired	92	89	86	92	88	84	111	125
Underemployed persons
Total	66	69	70	76	68	75	82	83
1-19 hours	5	5	5	3	5	6	7	6
20-36 hours	25	26	24	28	26	28	27	25
37 hours or more	36	39	40	44	37	41	48	52
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	34	34	33	34	33	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	25	26	26	29	23	27	31	31

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	117	115	112	121	111	111	142	156

Males
Unemployed persons
Total	61	60	56	59	65	57	72	85
1-19 hours	7	8	3	5	12	11	7	15
20-36 hours	10	9	10	10	9	5	19	15
37 hours or more	43	43	43	45	43	40	46	55
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	33	35	34	32	33	33	32
Number of man-weeks desired	55	53	53	53	55	49	63	73
Underemployed persons
Total	21	22	21	25	21	27	32	27
1-19 hours	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	1
20-36 hours	6	7	5	7	7	8	9	7
37 hours or more	13	14	14	15	12	16	21	19
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	33	34	34	32	34	35	36
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	9	9	8	9	7	11	14	12

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	64	62	61	62	62	60	77	85

Women
Unemployed persons
Total	47	46	40	50	43	46	57	68
1-19 hours	12	13	9	15	12	14	7	18
20-36 hours	14	12	11	13	11	12	16	17
37 hours or more	22	21	20	22	20	20	34	33
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	30	29	31	29	29	28	31	29
Number of man-weeks desired	38	36	33	39	33	35	48	53
Underemployed persons
Total	45	47	49	51	47	48	50	56
1-19 hours	3	3	4	1	3	3	5	5
20-36 hours	19	19	19	21	19	20	18	18
37 hours or more	23	25	26	29	25	24	27	33
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	33	35	34	34	33	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	16	18	18	19	16	17	17	19

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	54	54	51	58	49	52	65	72