Polish unemployment down to 5.3% in March: stats office
Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.3 percent in March, from 5.4 percent in February, the country’s statistics office reported on Wednesday.
Photo: PAP/Tytus Żmijewski
The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the labour ministry.
There were around 822,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of March, compared with 845,300 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.
The statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies inched down 0.2 percent in March on average in year-on-year terms.
According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in February, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.
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Source: IAR, PAP
