Malaysia’s unemployment rate increased slightly in February, figures from the Department of Statistics showed Friday.
The jobless rate climbed to 3.2 percent in February form 3.1 percent at the start of the year. A year earlier, the unemployment rate was also 3.2 percent.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percent to 3.2 percent in February from 3.0 percent in the preceding month.
The number of unemployed people increased to 454,900 in February from 442,000 in January. A year ago, the jobless figure totaled 446,400.
The number of employed people came in at 13.66 million in February, up from 13.60 million in the previous month.
At the same time, the labour force participation rate climbed to 67.4 percent in February from 67.2 percent in January. This increase was contributed by the increase of 62.7 thousand employed persons in the labour market.
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