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Unemployed
Modified on November 14, 2007
Part A - Plain language definition:
Not applicable
Part B - Detailed definition:
Persons who, during the week (Sunday to Saturday) prior to Census Day (May 16, 2006), were without paid work or without self-employment work and were available for work and either:
had actively looked for paid work in the past four weeks; or
were on temporary lay-off and expected to return to their job; or
had definite arrangements to start a new job in four weeks or less.
