The statistics indicate a slight improvement from 2010, and so it seems that the country has managed to at least partially meet the EU's 2020 employment targets. However, the methodology used to quantify employment, along with the fact that many people are involved in public work programs, and the fact that the expatriate Hungarians are calculated to fall within the statistics, means that it is difficult to estimate the real improvement in the labour market in Hungary on the basis of those statistics.