Labour Market - Statistics Iceland

Statistics Iceland has carried out a labour force survey since 1991. The survey shows the labour market status of the Icelandic population, e.g. activity rate, employed persons, unemployment and working hours.

Improvements in the processing of the Icelandic Labour Force Survey 25 February 2021
Quality assessment of working time estimates in the Labour Force Survey 10 December 2020
Labour market statistics, 4th quarter 2018 7 February 2019
Labour market statistics, 3rd quarter 2018 1 November 2018
Labour market statistics, 2nd quarter 2018 9 August 2018

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Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate 8.2% in January 25 February 2021

The activity rate has never been lower 4 February 2021

Labour market slack increases by almost 5 percentage points between years 28 January 2021

Register based employment decreased 7.6% in October 12 January 2021

2,800 vacant jobs in the fourth quarter of 2020 11 January 2021

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