Polish unemployment at 5.1% in October: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.1 percent in October, unchanged from September, the country’s statistics office reported on Friday.

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The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the government.

There were around 796,000 people without jobs across the nation at the end of October, compared with 801,700 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in October 2022 amounted to 5.1% and was the same as in September 2022 (5.1%).

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin 10/2022: https://t.co/3yCSne1ujd#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/2nAeYCHgLK

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) November 25, 2022

The state-run statistics office has revised upward its estimates of Poland's monthly jobless figures since December last year, state news agency PAP has reported.

#StatisticsPoland revised the monthly #RegisteredUnemployment rate from Dec. 2020 to Aug. 2022. The details of the revision can be found in the information and the table which provides data before and after the revision.https://t.co/jkvo5CEHfq#statistics #LabourMarket pic.twitter.com/Hn5sNSxp9z

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) October 25, 2022

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.6 percent in September, unchanged from August and the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP