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Fed: Jobless rate soars to 5.7 per cent
AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2009
Fed: Jobless rate soars to 5.7 per cent
CANBERRA, April 9 AAP - The jobless rate has soared to 5.7 per cent, rising at a faster
pace than the government predicted just a few months ago.
The seasonally adjusted rate for March is the highest level since December 2003.
It compared with 5.2 per cent in February and is 1.8 percentage points above the 34-year
low of 3.9 per cent record in February 2008, Australian Bureau of Statistics data released
on Thursday shows.
The number of people employed dropped by a seasonally adjusted 34,700 in March. There
was a 38,900 slump in full-time workers, while there was a small rise in part-time workers.
Economists had expected total employment to fall by 25,000 in March and a jobless rate
of 5.4 per cent.
The federal government is expected revise up its unemployment forecasts in the May
12 budget given the rapid deterioration in economic activity.
In February, it forecast a jobless rate of 5.5 per cent by June 2009, rising to 7.0
per cent by mid-2010.
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