Turkey January 2010 Adjusted Jobless 13.1% Vs 10.3% Jan 2005
Turkey's unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonalcalendar effects, rose to 13.1% in January 2010 from 10.3% in January 2005, the Turkish Statistics Institute, or TUIK, said Friday.
Official data released April 15 showed that Turkey's unemployment rate rose to 14.5% during the December 2009February 2010 period, compared with 13.5% from November to January.
For the whole of 2009, the number of employed people totaled 21.28 million, while the number of unemployed totaled 3.47 million.
(YC-YC-E-ENG)