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Unemployment constitutes 6.6 percent in Kazakhstan

Business Materials 13 July 2009 12:07 (UTC +04:00)

Kazakhstan, Astana, July 13 / Trend , K.Konirova/

In June unemployed people in Kazakhstan numbered 559,200 with an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, the Kazakh Statistical Agency told Trend .

"Officially, the employment department of the Labor and Social Protection Ministry registered 92,800 people by July 1. Registered unemployed people comprised 1.1 percent of the economically active population, which is 0.4 percent more than last year," the department said.

Roughly 8 million people were employed in the Kazakh economy in June 2009, the ministry said.

"Regarding the same period in 2008, their number has increased by 39,700, or 0.5 percent. Hired employees numbered 5.3 million people (65.9 percent of total employment) in this period. Estimates show that the level of hidden unemployment was 1.1 percent of the economically active population in June 2009," the statistical agency reported.

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