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The unemployment rate in Ukraine in March 2017 fell by 7.4%, against February, or 32,600 people in absolute terms, to 406,800 people, the State Statistics Service reported.
The number of registered unemployed citizens made up 1.5% of the working-age population.
Unemployed citizens receiving social assistance has dropped by almost 32,400 people, down to 332,800 people. At the same time, the average size of social assistance in March was UAH 2,028 compared to UAH 1,923 UAH in February this year.
In March, 11.1% of registered unemployed were hired compared to 5.4% a month earlier.
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The data exclude Crimea and the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
As UNIAN reported, as of late 201, there were 390,800 officially unemployed citizens in Ukraine, which corresponded to 1.5% of the working-age population.