Highlights
September unemployment rate slipped to 4.1 percent from 4.3 percent in August as the number of employed increased from the previous month. The unemployment rate is the lowest since November 2008 when it was 4.0 percent. Effective with September data, the government released the national average unemployment rate based on figures from all the 47 prefectures, including earthquake hit areas that were previously excluded from the data. The adjusted number of unemployed was down by 30,000 to 2.67 million for the second consecutive monthly drop. The unadjusted number of employed people fell by 330,000 to 62.76 million on the year.
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4.1% 4.5% 4.3%
Released on 10/27/2011 23:30 for Sep, 2011