Actual unemployment level in Latvia at 6.4% and registered – at 5.8%

In August 2022 actual unemployment rate in Latvia constituted 6.4 % and compared to July it has reduced by 0.1 percentage points.
Unemployment rate among both women and men decreased by 0.1 percentage points, reaching 4.5 % and 8.2 %, according to results of the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia.
The unemployment rate registered with the State Employment Agency (SEA) accounted for 5.8 %, and since July it has dropped by 0.2 percentage points. Compared to August of the year before, actual unemployment rate has gone down by 0.8 percentage points and registered by 0.7 percentage points.
In August 2022 there were 60.7 thousand unemployed persons in Latvia (21.3 thousand women and 39.4 thousand men), which is 0.9 thousand fewer than in July and 7.0 thousand fewer than in the corresponding period a year ago. Over the month the number of unemployed men reduced by 0.6 thousand and of unemployed women by 0.3 thousand.
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