Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/22
By: Pan Tsu-yu and Frances Huang

Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The jobless rate for April fell slightly from a month earlier to 3.67 percent, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said Wednesday.

After seasonal adjustments, however, the local unemployment rate for April rose 0.01 percent from a month earlier to 3.73 percent, marking the second consecutive month of a higher seasonally adjusted jobless rate.

Pan Ning-hsin (潘寧馨), deputy director of the DGBAS census department, said that the higher seasonally adjusted unemployment rate over the past two months reflected an economic slowdown.

Pan said, however, that the increase remained tolerable.    [FULL  STORY]