Unemloyment Rate Amounts to 14.5 Percent October

Ljubljana, 22 December - UNEMPLOYMENT/NOVEMBER
There were 126,462 unemployed persons registered with the National Employment Office last November. The number of the unemployed was down by 0.1 percentage point from October 1997 but up by 3.8 percent from November 1996. The October rate of registered unemployment amounted to 14.5 percent according to the Office of Statistics.