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OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate falls to 5.5% in October 2007
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10/12/07 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in October 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier.
In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.2% in October 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.8 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for November 2007 was 4.7%, the same as the previous month and 0.2 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in October 2007, the same as the previous month and 0.1 percentage point lower than in October 2006...etc.
Standardised unemployment rates for the other OECD countries
The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 11 January 2008.
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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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