According to the results of the Employment Survey released by Statistics and Census Service, the unemployment rate in December 2004 - February 2005 was 4.1%, down 0.1 and 1.4 percentage points over November 2004 - January 2005 and December 2003 - February 2004 respectively. The underemployment rate was 1.2%, unchanged over November 2004 - January 2005, but down 0.9 percentage point over December 2003 - February 2004. The number of the unemployed searching for their first job was about 1 000, or 10.3% of the total unemployed population. This represented a decrease of 1.2 percentage points over November 2004 - January 2005. Compared with November 2004 - January 2005, unemployment situation in Wholesale & retail trade and Hotels, restaurants & similar activities reported improvements, while it worsened in Transport, storage & communications. Total labour force was estimated at 238 000 in December 2004 - February 2005; the employed and the unemployed populations were 228 000 and 9 800 respectively. Labour force participation rate was 62.4%, which fell 0.4 percentage point compared with November 2004 - January 2005, but rose 0.8 percentage point over December 2003 - February 2004.
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