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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		3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020	4th quarter 2020
	2019	2020	3rd quarter 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020	4th 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	106	130	109	108	103	129	153	137
1-19 hours	21	25	20	24	25	14	33	29
20-36 hours	21	27	23	20	17	35	32	25
37 hours or more	64	78	66	64	60	80	88	83
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	32	31	32	31	31	32	31	32
Number of man-weeks desired	89	109	92	88	84	111	125	115
Underemployed persons
Total	69	82	76	68	75	82	83	87
1-19 hours	5	7	3	5	6	7	6	8
20-36 hours	26	27	28	26	28	27	25	27
37 hours or more	39	48	44	37	41	48	52	52
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	34	33	34	33	34	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	26	31	29	23	27	31	31	32

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	115	140	121	111	111	142	156	147

Males
Unemployed persons
Total	60	73	59	65	57	72	85	77
1-19 hours	8	11	5	12	11	7	15	12
20-36 hours	9	13	10	9	5	19	15	12
37 hours or more	43	49	45	43	40	46	55	54
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	33	33	34	32	33	33	32	34
Number of man-weeks desired	53	64	53	55	49	63	73	69
Underemployed persons
Total	22	30	25	21	27	32	27	33
1-19 hours	2	3	2	2	3	2	1	4
20-36 hours	7	8	7	7	8	9	7	7
37 hours or more	14	20	15	12	16	21	19	23
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	33	35	34	32	34	35	36	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	9	13	9	7	11	14	12	13

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	62	77	62	62	60	77	85	82

Women
Unemployed persons
Total	46	58	50	43	46	57	68	59
1-19 hours	13	14	15	12	14	7	18	17
20-36 hours	12	14	13	11	12	16	17	13
37 hours or more	21	29	22	20	20	34	33	29
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	29	29	29	29	28	31	29	29
Number of man-weeks desired	36	45	39	33	35	48	53	46
Underemployed persons
Total	47	52	51	47	48	50	56	54
1-19 hours	3	4	1	3	3	5	5	4
20-36 hours	19	19	21	19	20	18	18	20
37 hours or more	25	28	29	25	24	27	33	29
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	33	35	34	34	33	34	33
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	18	18	19	16	17	17	19	19

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	54	63	58	49	52	65	72	65