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Refers to both actively and inactively unemployed persons in the labour force. The actively unemployed include all persons who did not work during the reference week but were available for work and actively looking for work during the reference week. Inactively unemployed refers to persons who did not look for work because they believed no work was available or that they were not qualified, persons who would have looked for work if they had not been temporary ill or not had it not been for bad weather, persons who were waiting for answers to job applications and persons who had looked for work prior to the reference week.