Turkey's unemployment rate dips to 8.4% in January
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FILE PHOTO: Employees work next to an empty production line at a garment factory in the organized industrial zone in Corum, Turkey, August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan/File Photo
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month to 8.4% in January, official data showed on Friday.
The Turkish Statistical Institute data showed the labour force participation rate dropped 0.4 percentage points to 53.7% while a seasonally adjusted measure of labour under-utilisation rose 0.1 percentage points to 28.1%.
(Reporting by Canan Sevgili; Editing by Daren Butler)
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