Off the wire
• Exhibition of Lee Kuan Yew opens in Singapore  • Bahrain carrier suspends flights to Yemen citing safety concerns  • 2nd LD Writethru: 75 killed in Boko Haram attack in northern Nigeria town  • Spain detains four linked to separatist group ETA  • Japanese firm develops thinnest switches for smartphones  • British inventor heads to China with rare timepiece invention  • Canadian duo lead pairs while China's Pang/Tong shine at Figure Skating worlds  • Full Text: Distorting history is unacceptable  • Lufthansa promises to continue set safety as top priority  • U.S. durable goods orders down in February  
You are here: 　 Home

Iceland's unemployment rises slightly in Feb.

Xinhua, March 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Iceland's unemployment rate stood at 4.6 percent in February 2015, registering a year-on-year increase of 0.2 percentage point, according to a labor force survey issued Wednesday by Statistics Iceland.

The survey showed the number of people in the labor force market in February was 188,100, of which 8,600 people were unemployed.

Seasonally-adjusted data showed that in February, the number of unemployed people amounted to 9,100, increasing by 1,300 from January. The unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in February compared to 4.1 percent in January.

The trend lines for seasonally-adjusted data in the last six months show a slight decrease in unemployment rate and a slow increase in employment.

Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends. Enditem