Romania's Feb ILO unemployment flat y/y at 7.1%.

By bne IntelliNews April 3, 2012
Romania's ILO-defined unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, decreased for a third consecutive month in February when it reached 7.1% for the 15-74 age group, the statistics office reported on its website. The unemployment rate hit 7.7% in September last year. It was 7.1% in February 2011. For the 25-74 age group, the unemployment rate followed a similar pattern over the past year, reaching a peak of 6.1% in September and easing to 5.5% in February - flat from a year earlier. ILO unemployment measures the persons actively seeking jobs, while the registered unemployment reports people that applied to the labour bureaus for a job.

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