Turkey's Unemployment Rate 10.6 Percent For November 2007-January 2008 Period

ANKARA - Unemployment rate in Turkey was 10.6 percent for November 2007-January 2008, according to a survey on household labor force by the Turkish Statistical Board (TUIK). The figure was 10.5 for the same period last year.
The figure was 12.2 in cities and 8.1 percent in rural areas.
The number of jobless people dropped by 10,000 to over the same period last year and stood at 2,436,000.
In this period, 24 percent of the employed worked in agricultural area, 21 percent in industrial sector, 5.5 percent in construction, and 49.5 percent in services sector.
According to the survey, 74.9 percent of the unemployed were male and 57.8 percent of them had education less than a high school.
(YMB-AÖ)