Unemployment down in October

According to Eurostat, the rate of seasonally-adjusted unemployment in Poland in September slipped down 0.2 percentage points to 5.7, compared with August. However, according to the Central Statistical Office (GUS), the official unemployment rate, which measures the percentage of registered unemployed amongst the total adult population, was 8.3 percent at the end of that same month. Across the European Union, the lowest seasonally-adjusted rates were in Czechia and Germany. The overall rate for the EU28 was 8.5 percent, while for the Eurozone, using the same measurement, it was 10.0 percent.