In compliance with the EUROSTAT recommendation since the 1st quarter of 2001 the population of unemployed persons has been limited to persons aged 15 - 74 years (until 2000 aged 15 years and more). The unemployed are persons who simultaneously meet the following three conditions: 1) in the reference week were not employed, 2) were actively looking for work, i.e. for over 4 weeks (the reference week being the fourth one) had been involved in concrete actions aimed at finding a job, 3) were ready (able) to take up work within two weeks after the reference week. The persons who were not seeking work because they had already found a job and were only waiting to start work within the period no longer than 3 months and they were able to take this job (until the end of 2003 the ability to take a job was not taken into consideration) are also included in the category of the unemployed. The long - term unemployed (i.e. for 13 months and more). Since the first quarter of 2008, the duration of a job search has been calculated from the moment of ending the break in a job search providing that it happened and lasted at least four weeks. Therefore, these data are not comparable with the results of the previous years. The presented data include also division by sex.