Eurostat: Unemployment at 9.7% in Poland

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland inched down to 9.7 percent in February compared to 9.8 percent in January, according to data presented by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat on Tuesday. In February 2013 the rate was 10.6 percent.

 

Throughout the EU the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 10.6 percent in February compared to 10.7 percent in January. In the euro area it was 11.9 percent, unchanged since the previous month.

 

Poland’s statistics office GUS, which uses a different methodology, said in late March that the February registered unemployment rate was 13.9 percent.