CORRECTION: Survey unemployment rate down to 7.8% in Q2

Corrects employment total in para 6

The number of employed persons in the 6th paragraph of the report should be 793,000 and not 793 as incorrectly stated. A correct version of the copy follows below.

Survey unemployment rate down to 7.8% in Q2

Ljubljana, 31 August - The survey unemployment rate in Slovenia in the second quarter of the year dropped by 1.1 percentage points compared to the first quarter to 7.8%, a five-year low. The number of unemployed persons decreased by 10.7% and the active working population rose by 2.8%, the Statistics Office said on Wednesday.

Ljubljana
September sees a drop in the rate of registered unemoloyment.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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