The number of employed decreased by 265,584 persons compared with November 2011 (a 6.8 percent rate of decrease) and by 30,144 persons compared with October 2012 (a 0.8 percent rate of decrease). Unemployed increased by 323,808 persons (a 31.5 percent rate of increase) compared with November 2011 and by 20,255 persons compared with October 2012 (a 1.5 percent rate of increase).
Inactive persons –that is, persons that neither worked neither looked for a job– decreased by 19,577 persons (a 0.6 percent rate of decrease) compared with November 2011 and by 2,683 persons compared with October 2012 (a 0.1 percent rate of decrease).