Eurostat: unemployment rate falls

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 7.1 percent in December 2015, compared with 7.2 percent in November, according to data released by the EU statistics office, Eurostat. As for the entire EU, the unemployment rate stood at 9 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.