Unemployment rates published by the European Commission (Eurostat) and conform to International Labour Organisation (ILO) guidelines. They refer to persons actively seeking work as a share of the labour force, using harmonised criteria and definitions.
Please refer to the EU labour force survey – methodology and Unemployment statistics .
Where annual and quarterly Labour Force Survey data have not yet been published, annual and quarterly data are derived as simple averages of the monthly data .
Monthly, Quarterly
For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the LFSI underlying DSD (EUROSTAT_LFS1) maintained by the EUROSTAT.
LFSI - Labour Force Survey Indicators
Eurostat
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