Polish unemployment steady at 5.6% in October: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.6 percent in October, unchanged from September, the country's statistics office reported on Wednesday.

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

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There were around 867,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of October, up from 866,100 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

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The statistics office reported earlier this week that employment in Polish companies dropped by 0.8 percent in October on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland stood at 3.2 percent in September, marking one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP