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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		2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019
	2017	2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019	2nd quarter 2019	3rd quarter 2019
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	117	108	109	114	98	108	97	109
1-19 hours	21	19	13	22	20	26	13	20
20-36 hours	24	24	33	20	22	19	21	23
37 hours or more	72	65	63	71	56	64	63	66
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	32	32	33	32	31	31	33	32
Number of man-weeks desired	99	92	95	97	82	89	86	92
Underemployed persons
Total	61	66	62	65	72	64	70	76
1-19 hours	4	5	3	4	5	7	5	3
20-36 hours	24	25	23	24	27	24	24	28
37 hours or more	33	36	35	37	40	34	40	44
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	35	34	34	33	34	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	23	25	24	25	28	26	26	29

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	122	117	119	122	110	115	112	121

Males
Unemployed persons
Total	68	61	63	65	50	60	56	59
1-19 hours	9	7	4	10	6	12	3	5
20-36 hours	12	10	19	6	6	7	10	10
37 hours or more	47	43	40	49	37	41	43	45
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	33	34	34	34	34	32	35	34
Number of man-weeks desired	60	55	57	59	45	52	53	53
Underemployed persons
Total	18	21	19	20	23	22	21	25
1-19 hours	1	2	1	1	2	3	2	2
20-36 hours	5	6	6	6	7	7	5	7
37 hours or more	12	13	12	13	14	12	14	15
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	35	34	34	32	34	34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	8	9	8	8	10	9	8	9

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	68	64	65	67	55	61	61	62

Women
Unemployed persons
Total	49	47	46	49	48	48	40	50
1-19 hours	12	12	9	12	14	14	9	15
20-36 hours	13	14	14	14	15	11	11	13
37 hours or more	24	22	23	22	19	23	20	22
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	30	30	31	29	29	29	31	29
Number of man-weeks desired	39	38	38	38	37	37	33	39
Underemployed persons
Total	43	45	43	45	50	42	49	51
1-19 hours	2	3	2	3	4	4	4	1
20-36 hours	19	19	17	17	20	17	19	21
37 hours or more	21	23	23	24	26	22	26	29
Average working hours desired (hours per week)	34	34	35	34	34	33	33	35
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks	15	16	16	16	18	16	18	19

Number of man-weeks supplied, total¹	54	54	54	54	55	53	51	58