Chile

Unemployment - October 2002

The numbers in detail

The National Statistical Institute (INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas) reports:

In the quarter from August to October 2002, the national open unemployment rate reached 9.6%.  This represents a decline of 0.1 percentage points when compared to the same period last year and a 0.1 percentage point decline over the preceding moving quarter.

Open National Unemployment, October 2001 - October 2002

Note: Moving quarterly averages.
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE).

Additional information available in Spanish.

More detailed information available at the National Statistical Institute (INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas).
 

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