The provisional unemployment rate estimate for December 2015 was 11.8%, having decreased by 0.4 percentage points from the definitive estimate for November 2015.
The provisional unemployed population estimate for December 2015 was 604.0 thousand people, down 3.6% from the definitive estimate for November 2015 (less 22.8 thousand people). The provisional employed population estimate was 4,501.3 thousand people, remaining practically unchanged from the previous month level.
In these estimates, it was considered the population aged 15 to 74 and the values were seasonally adjusted.