Total population by activity condition and rates
Number of people and percentages per quarter
 
 

 

 

quarterly 1/2022

quarterly 2/2022 /n3 

quarterly 3/2022

quarterly 4/2022

quarterly 1/2023

quarterly 2/2023

quarterly 3/2023

quarterly 4/2023

 

 Total population

 

5,192,543.0

5,205,148.0

5,218,374.0

5,229,297.0

5,241,752.0

5,254,497.0

5,265,954.0

5,278,110.0

 

 Total population 15 years and over

 

4,080,958.0

4,093,794.0

4,107,617.0

4,119,368.0

4,134,581.0

4,147,072.0

4,159,396.0

4,172,856.0

 

 Labour Force

 

2,432,303.0

2,438,788.0

2,484,855.0

2,460,146.0

2,346,882.0

2,346,508.0

2,260,412.0

2,245,784.0

 

 Employment

 

2,102,076.0

2,153,988.0

2,187,884.0

2,173,061.0

2,098,103.0

2,121,609.0

2,077,742.0

2,081,900.0

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 Population seeking work (unemployed)

 

330,227.0

284,800.0

296,971.0

287,085.0

248,779.0

224,899.0

182,670.0

163,884.0

 

 h experience (unemployed)

275,947.0

235,138.0

246,482.0

236,936.0

207,459.0

186,167.0

153,648.0

137,600.0

 

 hout experience (aspirants)

54,280.0

49,662.0

50,489.0

50,149.0

41,320.0

38,732.0

29,022.0

26,284.0

 

 Outside the EAP

 

1,648,655.0

1,655,006.0

1,622,762.0

1,659,222.0

1,787,699.0

1,800,564.0

1,898,984.0

1,927,072.0

 

 Outside the Working-Age Population (WAP) (under 15 years of age)

 

1,111,585.0

1,111,354.0

1,110,757.0

1,109,929.0

1,107,171.0

1,107,425.0

1,106,558.0

1,105,254.0

 

 Labour force gross participation rate

 

46.8

46.9

47.6

47.0

44.8

44.7

42.9

42.5

 

 Labour force net participation rate

 

59.6

59.6

60.5

59.7

56.8

56.6

54.3

53.8

 

 Employment/population rate

 

51.5

52.6

53.3

52.8

50.7

51.2

50.0

49.9

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 Unemployment rate

 

13.6

11.7

12.0

11.7

10.6

9.6

8.1

7.3

 

 mployment rate unemployed

11.3

9.6

9.9

9.6

8.8

7.9

6.8

6.1

 

 mployment rate aspirants

2.2

2.0

2.0

2.0

1.8

1.7

1.3

1.2

 

 Inactivity rate

 

40.4

40.4

39.5

40.3

43.2

43.4

45.7

46.2

 

 Subemployment rate

 

11.5

9.5

9.7

9.7

7.0

6.5

5.1

4.2

 

 General pressure rate

 

21.0

19.5

19.3

18.3

15.9

15.1

12.2

10.2

 
Source: Continuing Employment Survey (ECE) of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).

Notes:
n1/ Economically active population (EAP) or labor force: the group of persons aged 15 or over who during the reference period were either employed or unemployed.
n2/ With the publication of the figures for the I quarter of 2014, INEC adjusted the expansion factors from 2013 in order to match the results with the population projections made from the 2011 Population and Housing Census. Consult the methodological note published by the INEC in the link.
n3/ Errata. Applies to figures from the Continuous Employment Survey for the second quarter of 2022, downloaded or obtained digitally before September 30, 2022. The lines “Total population (TP)”, “Outside the Working-Age Population (WAP) (under 15 years of age)” and “Labour force gross participation rate” should have been corrected, for more detail you can access the document “Fe de erratas. ECE. Cuadros de comparación interanual y errores de muestreo AMJ 2022” published by INEC in the link below.

    Links:
  1/ Note INEC Methodology
  2/ Erratas
 
 
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