INEGI: Mexico's September Unemployment Drops Murry Page - The Mazatlan Messenger
go to original October 19, 2014

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported that during September, the unemployment rate in the country was 5.08 percent of the economically active population, down from the 5.29 percent reported in September of 2013.

Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, President of the Governing Board of the INEGI, said according to seasonally adjusted numbers September’s unemployment rate of 4.75 percent was lower than the August seasonally adjusted rate of 4.83 percent and is the lowest seen in the past 10 months.

In September the unemployment rate for men was 5.13 percent down from 5.15 percent in September of last year, while the unemployment rate for women stood at 4.99 percent, down from the 5.52 percent reported in September of 2013.

The federal entities where the unemployment rate was above the national average included the Federal District (7.40 percent); the states of Querétaro (6.95 percent); Sonora (6.86 percent); Nayarit (6.87 percent); Baja California Sur (6.79 percent); and the State of México (6.14 percent).

The states reporting unemployment rates below the 5.08 percent national level were Guerrero (2.05 percent); Campeche (2.81 percent); Oaxaca (3.16 percent); Yucatán (3.33 percent); and Michoacán (3.52 percent).

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