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2010.11.0803:15:00UTC+00Czech Oct. Jobless Rate Stays At 8.5%

The jobless rate in the Czech Republic was 8.5% in October, same as in the previous month, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs said on Monday. Economists had expected the jobless rate to be 8.3%. A year earlier, the unemployment rate was 8.5%.

The unemployment rate for women and men was 10.1% and 7.2%, respectively in October.

Job offices registered altogether 495,161 job seekers in October, down by 5,320 from September. The number of job seekers decreased by 3,599 persons compared to the previous year. Newcomers totaled 53,724. At the same time, job offices terminated 59,044 registration of job seekers.

At the end of October, job offices registered 253, 888 female job seekers, that was 51.3% of the unemployed in total.

Today, the Czech statistical office said the number of unemployed persons according to the ILO methodology dropped by 12.4 thousand persons in the third quarter compared to the previous year. At the same time, the number of the long-term unemployed increased by 52.3 thousand persons.

The general unemployment rate in the age group 15-64 reached 7.2% in the third quarter, down from 7.4% in the same period of the previous year.

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