After rising in January, traditionally a bad month for the labour market due to the end of Christmas contracts, unemployment has returned to the path of continuous decline that it had been on since March 2021. According to data from the Ministry of Labour published on Wednesday, in February 142 fewer people were out of a job in Catalonia (0.4% fewer than in January), leaving the total at 371,660. In the Spanish State, the drop was 11,394 people (-0.36%). This is the best unemployment data for a month of February in Catalonia since 2008, when the number of unemployed was almost 291,000 people.