In January, the unemployment rate was 3.6%

In January, the official unemployment rate remained at 3.6%. These are the data from the State Statistics Committee, reports "Ukrainian News". \n \nAs of February 1, 2005, 1.029 million unemployed people were registered with the State Employment Service, or 3.6% of the working-age population. For comparison – as of January 1, 0.999 million unemployed people were registered, or 3.6%. \n \nThe highest unemployment rate as of February 1 was registered in Ternopil (8.1%), Rivne (6.4%) and Chernivtsi (6.4%) regions. The lowest – in Kyiv (0.4%), Sevastopol (0.8%) and Odesa region (2.3%). \n \nAccording to the State Statistics Committee, in January the state allocated assistance to the unemployed in the amount of 83.440 million hryvnias. It was received by 681.1 thousand unemployed people; the average amount of assistance per unemployed person in January was 147.77 hryvnias. \n \nThe State Statistics Committee reported that as of February 1, there were 170.2 thousand vacancies in Ukraine. \n \nRecall that in December 2004, the official unemployment rate increased by 0.2% – to 3.6%.