Term	Unemployed
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Source of Definition
Short Definition
Statistical Activity	Household Surveys Population Census Labour Market

Definition
All people in the working-age population who during their reference week were without a paid job, were available for work and:
(a) had actively sought work in the past four weeks ending with the reference week, or
(b) had a new job to start within four weeks.

A person whose only job search method in the previous four weeks has been to look at job advertisements in the newspapers is not considered to be actively seeking work.

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