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The July unemployment rate remained at 6.8%
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The July unemployment rate remained at 6.8% - August 2018
28 September 2018

Summary

In July 2018, the unemployment rate was 6.8%, the same value as in the previous month, down 0.3 percentage points (p.p.) from three months before and down 2.1 p.p. from the same month of 2017. Since September 2002, no lower unemployment rate than those of June and July 2018 was observed.
In comparison to the previous month, the unemployed population has decreased by 0.5% (1.9 thousand fewer people) and the employed population has decreased by 0.1% (6.6 thousand more people).
The provisional unemployment rate estimate for August 2018 indicates that the unemployment rate remains identical to the previous month’s level (6.8%).


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