According to data from Eurostat, the statistical body of the EU, one in five people found a job in Q2.

The data showed that, out of all persons in the EU who were unemployed in the first quarter 2016, 63.2% (12.6 million persons) remained unemployed in the second quarter 2016, while 19.5% (3.9 million) moved into employment and 17.3% (3.5 million) towards economic inactivity, this corresponds to about 1 in 5 persons finding a job in Q2.

Of all those initially in employment, 97.3% (170.8 million persons) remained in employment, while 1.2% (2.0 million) of those employed in the first quarter 2016 were observed to be unemployed in the second quarter 2016, and 1.6% (2.7 million) transitioned into economic inactivity.

Of all those initially in economic inactivity, 93.3% (106.1 million persons) remained in inactivity, while 6.7% entered the labour market: 3.1% (3.6 million) of those inactive in the first quarter 2016 moved into employment in the second quarter 2016, and 3.6% (4.1 million) transitioned into unemployment.

Economically inactive individuals are those neither employed nor unemployed. Examples are students, pensioners and housewives or men, provided that they are not working at all and not available or looking for work either.