April 10 (Reuters) - The Czech unemployment rate dipped to
7.3 percent of the workforce in March from 7.7 percent a month
earlier, the Labour...
...Ministry said on Tuesday in a release of the
data under EU-harmonised methodology.
The March figure was below the 7.4 percent forecast of
analysts polled by Reuters .
CZECH UNEMPLOYMENT MARCH 07 FEB 07 MARCH 06
pct of workforce 7.3 7.7 8.8
number of available
jobless 399,618 422,944 479,984
total number of jobless 430,474 454,737 514,759
NOTE. The number of available jobless shows how many people
registered as unemployed by labour offices are able to start
work shortly. The total number of jobless is for all jobless
registered by labour offices.
The data is calculated in line with the methodology used by
Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency.
(Reporting by Mirka Krufova in Prague)
Keywords: CZECH ECONOMY/JOBLESS