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  • Women's Unemployment Increases 1.6% Compared With 8 Months of 2003

    NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED WOMEN INCREASES BY 1.6% IN ARMENIA COMPARED WITH
    8 MONTHS OF 2003

    YEREVAN, October 5 (Noyan Tapan). In January-August 2004 the average
    number of economically active population of Armenia made 1233.4
    thousand people, 90.5% or 1116.3 thousand out of them were engaged in
    economy and 9.5% or 117.1 thousand were unemployed. The latters were
    registered in RA Employment Service agency of RA Ministry of Labor and
    Social Issues and received the status of unemployed. According to the
    data of RA National Statistical Service, as of late August 97.6% or
    144.1 thousand out of the people looking for a job and registered in
    the agency were unemployed and 78.6% or 113.3 thousand out of them
    were given the status of unemployed. From the beginning of the year
    5.4 thousand people got a job and 52.8% of them were women. 79
    thousand or 69.8% of the unemployed officially registered in 2004
    August were women. This index increased by 1.6% compared with the same
    period of 2003.
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