Economic indicators: Unemployment

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Series Details No.1 February
Publication Date February 1998
ISSN 0264-7362
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Economic indicators:
Unemployment. EU seasonally adjusted unemployment was 10.6% at the end of November 1997. This compares to 10.7% as in the previous four months (following revisions to earlier data). Eurostat estimates that 17.9m were unemployed in the EU in November 1997.

The rates in individual EU Member States was as follows:

Luxembourg

  3.6%
Austria

  4.5%
Netherlands

  4.9% (October)
Denmark

  5.8%
Portugal

  5.9%
United Kingdom

  6.9%
Sweden

  9.2%
Belgium

  9.3%
Ireland

  9.8%
Germany

10.0%
France

12.5%
Finland

12.8%
Spain

20.8%
Greece

-
Italy

-

Source: News Release(Eurostat), No.4, 1998 (15.1.98)
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