The registered unemployment rate in Croatia in March was 19.3 per cent, or 0.3 percentage points less than in February, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
Year on year, the registered unemployment rate was 0.9 percentage points higher than in March 2010, when it stood at 18.4 per cent.
The registered unemployment rate is calculated as a ratio of the number of unemployed people registered with the Croatian Employment Service (HZZ) to the active work force.
At the end of March, 330,130 jobless people were registered with the HZZ, or 1.9 per cent fewer than in February and 3.6 per cent more than in March 2010.
According to the HZZ, 15,737 job-seekers found employment in March, which was 43.3 per cent more than in February and 28.7 per cent more than in March 2010. The number of newly-registered unemployed people was 20,676, or 15 per cent fewer than in February and 9.5 per cent fewer than in March 2010.
