Unemployment rate falls to 9.6%

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 9.6 percent at the end of October, compared with 9.7 percent a month before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. In October 2014, the rate amounted to 11.3 percent of professionally active Poles. The number of registered unemployed totaled 1.516 million people, compared with 1.784 million a year previously. Earlier, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy also estimated unemployment to be 9.6 percent in October.