Overview
- Seasonally adjusted affiliation increased by 64,569, reinforcing a solid labor‑market trend beyond calendar effects.
- Education added roughly 167,000 affiliates while hospitality lost about 50,000, reflecting October’s typical sectoral swing.
- Women accounted for around 110,000 of the new affiliates, pushing female participation to a record 10.34 million; foreign workers also set a high above 3.1 million.
- Madrid led October’s affiliation gains (+49,445), followed by the Valencian Community (+36,459) and Barcelona province (+34,854), as Castilla y León posted the largest rise in registered unemployment and exceeded 100,000 jobseekers.
- Registered unemployment rose by 22,101 to 2,443,766, the lowest October level since 2007, while some analyses estimate effective joblessness near 3.2 million when inactive discontinuous workers are included.