Slovenia's registered unemployment rate was 8.4% in February 2007, 0.3 percentage points down over January, the national Statistics Office said on Tuesday.
Labour Force Survey data, based on internationally adjusted definitions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), meanwhile shows that Slovenia's unemployment rate in 2006 was 6%.
A total of 77,669 people were registered as unemployed in January, 2.9% down on January and 17.5% down year-on-year. The registered unemployment rate was 7% among men and 10.3% among women.
Slovenia's labour force numbered 919,180 in February, out of whom 841,511 were employed. The number of these rose by 0.4% in comparison with January and increased by 3.4% over February 2006.
Of the employed, 88.624 were self-employed while of the 752,887 who worked for other people 685,603 held jobs at companies and 67,284 worked for entrepreneurs, up 2.7 and 5.5% year-on-year, respectively.
The number of farmers rose by 12.1% in the year to 36,109.
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