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Slovenia's survey unemployment rate down in 2015

Xinhua, April 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The surveyed unemployment rate in Slovenia in 2015 fell by 0.7 percentage points to nine percent compared to the year before, the Slovenian Statistics Office said on Friday.

The number of employed persons was recorded at 917,000, which has been decreasing since 2013 and was down by 8,000 or 8.1 percent in 2015 compared to 2014.

The highest unemployment rate remained in the 15 to 29 age group, at 16.4 percent, while the survey unemployment rate for women stood at 10.1 percent and for men at 8.1 percent, the national statistics office indicated.

The active working population remained the same size as in 2014, while the inactive population rose by 0.8 percent or 6,000 to 750,000 last year. Most of them were pensioners (67.9 percent) and students (18 percent).

Survey unemployment measured according to International Labour Organization (ILO) standards traditionally has a lower unemployment rate than the registered rate used by the Slovenian Employment Service, according to a report by the Slovenian Press Agency (STA). Endit