SEOUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Following are details of South Korea's employment data for September, released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday (not seasonally adjusted unless stated, number of people in 1,000's, rates in percent, changes over a year earlier):
SEPT CHG AUG CHG Population aged 15 or above 41,696 556 41,664 546 Labour force 25,755 679 25,623 366 Employed 25,003 685 24,859 364 Regular employees 11,291 527 11,203 494 Self-employed workers 5,803 111 5,803 123 Unemployed 752 -6 764 2 Unemployment rate 2.9 ~ 3.0 ~
(Seasonally adjusted rate) 3.1 ~ 3.1 ~
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- The number of employed people rose in September by the most since March 2002 over a year earlier, government data shows.
(Reporting By Se Young Lee; Editing by Choonsik Yoo)
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Keywords: KOREA ECONOMY/EMPLOYMENT