Unemployment going down, but the unemployment rate is going up

Nevertheless, this means that those without jobs represent 18% of those of the labor force. The Minister believes, that about 200,000 jobs will be created over the course of 2004. On the other hand, the Central Statistical Office could announce today a revised figure for 2003 putting the jobless rate at the end of the year at almost 20% rather than 18%. This reason for the revision is last year's national census, which revealed that the number of professionally active people is much smaller than previously thought. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) T.J.