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December's unemployment rate at 6.6%
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December's unemployment rate at 6.6% - January 2019
28 February 2019

Summary

In December 2018, the unemployment rate was 6.6%, down 0.1 percentage points (pp) from the previous month’s level, the same value as in three months before, and down 1.3 pp from the same month of 2017. That value corresponds to a downwards revision of 0.1 pp of the provisional estimate released one month ago.
In comparison to the previous month, the unemployed population has decreased by 0.4% (1.5 thousand people) and the employed population has increased by 0.4% (18.4 thousand).
The provisional unemployment rate estimate for January 2019 was 6.7%, up 0.1 p.p. from the previous month’s level.


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