GUS releases unemployment numbers by sector, voivodeship

Poland's Central Statistical Office announced on Friday in a press release that the registered unemployment rate in November was 8.2 percent, the same as for October. At the end of November. the number of unemployed registered in labor offices was 1.31 million, which was actually a slight increase compared to the previous month (by 0.4 percent) but a decrease compared to November of last year, of 217,000, GUS stated. The lowest unemployment rate was in Wielkopolska, at 5 percent., The highest was in Warmia and Mazury, at 13.9 percent. In Łódzkie and Mazowieckie there was a decrease of 0.1 percent, month-on-month. There was an increase in Lublin, Świętokrzyskie, Warmia and Mazury, of 0.2 percent, and in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Podkarpackie, Pomerania of 0.1 percent. In the structure of unemployed, more women than in 2015 were registered as unemployed at the end of November of 2016. The release stated that 53.9 percent of those registered as unemployed were women. The share of unemployed graduates by 0.6 percent, to 4.0 percent. In November this year, higher than the average employment growth, y/y, was found in companies involved in the manufacture of furniture (by 6.5 percent), the production of rubber and plastic products (by 5.8 per cent), land transport and pipelines (5.7 percent), the production of motor vehicles (by 5.6 percent), the production of metal products (by 5.5 percent), retail trade (by 4 percent) and production of wood, cork and straw (by 3.4 percent). Lower employment was recorded in enterprises engaged in the mining of coal and lignite (by 7.8 percent), the construction of buildings (by 2.4 percent), the production of clothing (by 2.3 per cent), the construction of buildings and civil engineering (1.5 percent) and specialized construction (0.7 percent).