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The number of unemployed people came to 214,000 during the month.
In April–June, the average number of employed people aged 15–74 was 4.633 million, down 28,000 from the same period a year earlier.
Employment among men was unchanged at 2.473 million, while the number of employed women fell by 29,000 to 2.160 million.
The number of people working in the domestic primary labor market declined by 50,000 year-on-year to 4.439 million. The number of public workers stood at 70,000, while 124,000 people worked abroad.
Among people aged 15–64, the employment rate was broadly unchanged from a year earlier at 75.0%. The rate stood at 79.1% for men and 70.7% for women.
The average number of unemployed people aged 15–74 was 218,000 in April–June, corresponding to an unemployment rate of 4.5%.
The number of unemployed men stood at 106,000 and the number of unemployed women at 112,000. The unemployment rate was 4.1% among men and 4.9% among women.
The average duration of job searches was 12.5 months. Some 36.7% of unemployed people had been looking for work for less than three months, down 4.6 percentage points from a year earlier.
The share of people seeking work for between four and 11 months rose by 1.0 percentage point to 28.0%, while the proportion of long-term unemployed people looking for work for at least one year increased by 3.6 percentage points to 35.3%.
Administrative data from the National Employment Service show that the number of registered job seekers fell by 3.8% year-on-year to 211,000 at the end of June.
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