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OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate remains stable at 5.4% in August 2007
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08/10/07 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.4% in August 2007, the same as the previous month and 0.6 percentage point lower than a year earlier.
In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 6.9% in August 2007, also the same as the previous month and 0.9 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for September 2007 was 4.7%, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.1 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 3.8% in August 2007, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.3 percentage point lower than in August 2006.
Standardised unemployment rates for the other OECD countries
The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 9 November 2007.
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For further information, journalists are invited to contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org; others should contact the Statistics Directorate on stat.contact@oecd.org.
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