The provisional unemployment rate estimate for February 2016 was 12.3%, having increased by 0.2 percentage points from the definitive estimate for January 2016.
The provisional unemployed population estimate for February 2016 was 622.2 thousand people, up 0.9% from the definitive estimate for January 2016 (more 5.5 thousand people). The provisional employed population estimate was 4,453.4 thousand people, down 0.3% from the previous month level (less 14.8 thousand people).
In these estimates, it was considered the population aged 15 to 74 and the values were seasonally adjusted.