Eurostat: unemployment inched down in May

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 7.8 percent in May, according to data released by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat. In  April, the rate was 7.9 percent, while in May last year, it stood at 9.2 percent The number of unemployed amounted to 1.350 million, versus 1.359 million in the previous month. As for the entire EU, the unemployment rate amounted to 9.6 percent. An unemployed person is defined by Eurostat, according to the guidelines of the International Labour Organization, as someone aged 15 to 74 without work during the reference week who is available to start work within the next two weeks and who has actively sought employment at some time during the last four weeks. The unemployment rate is the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. The Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced earlier that the unemployment rate at the end of May stood at 10.8 percent. GUS methodology takes into account the number of registered unemployed in relation to the number of professionally active.