Polish unemployment flat at 5.5% in February: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.5 percent in February, unchanged from January, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Tuesday.

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The figure was in line with an earlier estimate by the country’s labour ministry.

There were around 919,900 people without jobs at the end of February, down from 922,200 a month earlier, according to the government-run statistics agency.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in February 2020 amounted to 5.5% and was the same as in January 2020.

More information in recent #StatisticsPoland's Statistical Bulletin 2/2020: https://t.co/9Arv3df1aB#LabourMarket #labour #statistics pic.twitter.com/v1Nh220276

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) March 24, 2020

The European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, said earlier this month that unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in January, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union.

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Source: PAP