Level of unemployment still growing

In the first quarter of 2010, KSH measured an 11.8-percent unemployment rate (2.1 percentage points higher than twelve months earlier), with 3,719,000 people being employed and 498,000 unemployed in the 15-74 age group. In the examined period, 61.9 percent of the 15-64 age group was present on the labour market, 48,000 people less than a year before.
The unemployment rate of the 25-54 age group was 11.1 percent, up 2.2 percent from the same period a year earlier. The average length of unemployment was 16.2 months, 0.5 months shorter than in January-March 2009. 45.4 percent of the unemployed have been looking for work at least for a year.