Unemployment rate in Poland up to 3.5% in October: Eurostat

The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 3.5 percent in October 2020 compared to 3.4 percent in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported. In October 2019, it was 3 percent.
The number of unemployed in Poland amounted to 595,000 in October against 584,000 a month earlier.
The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the euro area dropped to 8.4 percent in October 2020 from 8.5 percent in the previous month. In the EU as a whole, the unemployment rate in this approach amounted to 7.6 percent in October.
Eurostat measures the harmonized unemployment rate as the percentage of unemployed people aged 15-74 who were able to take up employment in the next two weeks and who were actively looking for a job in the past weeks for all the economically active people in the country.
According to the data of the Central Statistical Office (GUS), the unemployment rate, measured as a percentage of the unemployed registered in labor offices in relation to the total civilian population, was at the end of October this year 6.1 percent.
(ISBnews1, ISBnews2)