NSS rejects claim of false unemployment data for Q2

The National Statistics Service (NSS) yesterday rejected as baseless and malicious a claim by the main opposition New Democracy-party affiliated general secretary of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), Yiannis Manolis, that the latest unemployment data, showing a fall to 8.9 percent in the second quarter, was deliberately falsified... NSS General Secretary Nikos Karavitis said Eurostat endorsed the Greek data, and that its compilation on the basis of the 1991 census, which is also used by pollsters until the 2001 census is fully available, is perfectly legitimate. Manolis also charged that the NSS arbitrarily counted in the figures a large number of immigrants who are underemployed.
(05.09.03)   Kathimerini English Edilion   ()
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