Madrid (EFE).- The number of unemployed rose by 103,800 people in the first quarter of the year, to 3,127,800, while the number of employed decreased by 11,100 to leave the total at 20,452,800.
According to data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) published this Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the unemployment rate thus stands at 13.26%, 39 hundredths more than in the previous quarter.
As for employment, in a period that is usually bad for employment, it fell by 8,800 people in the private sector and by 2,300 in the public sector.