Denomination Number of the unemployed
2022 2023
January–March April–June July–September October–December January–March April–June July–September October–December
Total number of the unemployed 181.1 156.9 178.3 188.9 198.8 192.7
Highest educational attainment
at most primary school 59.7 54.7 56.3 69.2 70.5 70.4
vocational and apprentice school 46.2 43.0 45.4 47.3 55.9 47.5
grammar and other secondary school 51.5 42.6 50.8 51.0 50.0 53.4
college and university 23.6 16.6 25.8 21.5 22.4 21.4
Region of residence
Budapest 19.9 19.1 25.0 20.0 19.3 23.4
Pest 15.4 11.2 15.5 18.4 20.3 22.1
Central Transdanubia 9.4 8.8 10.6 7.7 10.4 10.0
Western Transdanubia 11.4 8.8 14.7 14.1 14.0 12.5
Southern Transdanubia 19.4 18.1 19.1 18.6 22.8 23.3
Northern Hungary 34.4 29.8 31.6 34.2 34.8 31.9
Northern Great Plain 47.4 40.5 40.0 47.2 49.1 44.2
Southern Great Plain 23.8 20.7 21.8 28.6 28.0 25.1
Economic activity a year before
was working 66.3 54.7 59.1 62.8 71.5 57.7
was unemployed 88.6 78.1 81.6 84.5 93.9 93.8
was economically inactive 26.2 24.2 37.5 41.6 33.4 41.2
of which: student 11.6 9.7 15.9 15.1 9.8 15.9
Reason for leave of previous workplace
lost job, or own business bankrupted 71.5 61.2 61.8 68.5 69.1 65.7
quit job, ceased business 28.2 27.0 30.2 31.1 40.7 32.9
seasonal work terminated 13.5 8.4 12.9 14.8 16.0 15.7
public work terminated 15.9 13.5 15.5 17.9 17.6 15.7
family responsibilities 7.4 5.9 7.4 7.0 4.3 3.7
othera 21.3 20.9 21.8 25.7 28.5 30.9
never had regular work 23.3 20.1 28.6 24.0 22.6 28.2
Industry of the previous employer
agriculture 9.3 7.6 6.3 7.9 8.7 8.7
industry 53.9 48.8 51.7 57.1 64.0 58.0
of which:
C manufacturing 34.8 32.2 35.9 36.0 37.4 39.3
F construction 17.1 13.7 13.7 17.5 25.5 17.8
services 84.7 69.1 79.2 88.1 91.0 85.4
of wich:
G–N market services 49.2 37.3 40.8 49.3 52.0 49.5
O–Q social public services 35.4 31.8 38.3 38.8 34.4 31.9
people who did not work in last 8 years or never had regular work or unknown 33.2 31.4 41.0 35.9 35.2 40.5

Footnotes

*Data of labour force survey refer to the population aged 15–74. Source: labour force survey, HCSO.
aIncluding those who are absent from work because of being on child-care and looking for another job, and those persons who didn’t work in their main job more than 3 months and for this period they received no salary or other payment, or in case they have received it does not reach the half of the usual salary.
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