By HELLENIC STATISTICAL AUTHORITY
PRESS RELEASE
LABOUR FORCE SURVEY: O c t o b e r 2 0 1 2
Piraeus, 10 January 2013
Hellenic Statistical Authority announces the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for
October 2012.
In the context of the program undertaken by ELSTAT for the improvement of dissemination and presentation of statistics, and in order to harmonize the presentation of monthly unemployment rate estimates with the presentation of monthly estimates provided by Eurostat, ELSTAT, since January 2012, announces the monthly results of the LFS seasonally adjusted, for persons 15 - 74 years old. Unadjusted data are still available on ELSTAT's website.
Unemployment rate in October 2012 was 26.8% compared to 19.7% in October 2011 and 26.2% in September 2012.1 The number of employed amounted to 3,680,894 persons.
