Eurostat: Unemployment in Poland down to 3.7% in June
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Seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in June, stood at 3.7 percent in June, compared to 3.8 percent in May, according to Eurostat methodology. The number of unemployed persons was 635,000.
In the eurozone, unemployment came in at 8.3 percent in June, unchanged from May, compared to 9 percent a year earlier. In the entire EU, unemployment stood at 6.9 percent, same as a month earlier and down from 7.6 percent in June 2017.
Eurostat measures unemployment as a percentage of people aged 15-74 who remain unemployed, are willing to take up a job within two weeks and who have been actively seeking employment over the past few weeks, compared to the entire pool of professionally active people in the country.