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16.06.2020
Labour Force Survey 1st quarter 2020

Due to the temporary measures introduced to prevent the entry into the country, control and preventing the transfer of the new coronavirus (COVID -19), and due to disabled access to households, the release presents preliminary data obtained via the Labour Force Survey carried out in the first quarter of 2020, while the final data are to be timely released.
 
According to the data for the first quarter of 2020, there were 283.2 thousands of active populations in Montenegro, out of which there were 237.0 thousands of employed persons or 83.7% and 46.2 thousands of unemployed or 16.3%. The number of persons in employment in comparison with the previous quarter has decreased by 0.5% and in comparison with the same quarter of previous year has increased by 0.8%. The number of unemployed in comparison with the previous quarter has increased by 2.7% and in comparison with the same quarter of previous year has increased by 11.3%.
 
There were 216.9 thousands of inactive populations. The number of inactive in comparison with the previous quarter has increased by 0.1% and in comparison with the same quarter of previous year has decreased by 3.4%.

The activity rate for the first quarter 2020 is 56.6%, the employment rate is 47.4%, unemployment rate is 16.3% and the inactivity rate is 43.4%. 

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