Monthly Results   -July 2010-

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Released on 27 August 2010

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Summary of the July 2010 Survey Results

(1) Employment 

  The number of employed persons in July 2010 was 62.71 million, an increase of 10 thousand or 0.0% from the previous year.

(2) Unemployment 

  The number of unemployed persons in July 2010 was 3.31 million, a decrease of 280 thousand or 7.8% from the previous year.

  The unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 5.2%.

(10 thousand persons)
	Actual figures	Change from the previous year
			(%)
Population of 15 years old or more	11050	-2	-0.0
Labour force	6602	-26	-0.4
Employed persons	6271	1	0.0
Employee	5447	3	0.1
Unemployed persons	331	-28	-7.8
Not in labour force	4441	20	0.5
Labour force participation rate (%)	59.7	-0.3	-
Employment rate (%)	56.8	0.1	-
Unemployment rate, original series (%)	5.0	-0.4	-
	Current month	Change from the previous month
Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted (%)	5.2	-0.1	-

  Summary Tables

The latest month

Table 1 Population of 15 years old or more by labour force status, employed person by industry, and unemployed person (the latest month)(Excel:56KB)

Time series

Table 2 Population of 15 years old or more by labour force status(Excel:74KB) (Labour force, Employed person, Unemployed person, Not in labour force, Labour force participation rate, Employment rate, Unemployment rate)

Table 3 Employed person by agriculture and forestry or non-agricultural industries and status in employment and weekly hours of work for employed person at work in non-agricultural industries(Excel:70KB)

Table 4 Employed person by major industry(Excel:61KB)

Table 5 Employee by major industry(Excel:60KB)

Table 6 Employee in non-agricultural industries by status in employment and number of persons engaged in enterprise(Excel:68KB)

Table 7 Employed person by class of weekly hours of work(Excel:66KB)

Table 8 Person wishing to change the present job and wishing to have additional job(Excel:60KB)

Table 9 Unemployed person by reason for seeking a job(Excel:74KB)

Table 10 Unemployed person by relationship to the head of household(Excel:60KB)

Table 11 Unemployment rate by relationship to the head of household(Excel:61KB)

Table 12 Labour force by age(Excel:66KB)

Table 13 Employed person by age(Excel:67KB)

Table 14 Unemployed person by age(Excel:66KB)

Table 15 Labour force participation rate by age(Excel:69KB)

Table 16 Employment rate by age(Excel:70KB)

Table 17 Unemployment rate by age(Excel:69KB)

Seasonally adjusted time series

Table 18 Seasonally adjusted series of major items(Excel:43KB) (Labour force, Employed person, Employee, Unemployed person, Not in labour force, Unemployment rate)

Notes 

Notes on the results