ASSOCIATED PRESS
4:06 p.m. January 18, 2007
MEXICO CITY 鈥?Mexico%26#039;s unemployment rate was 3.5 percent in December, up from 2.8 percent in the year-ago month, the National Statistics Institute, or Inegi, said Thursday. Unemployment in the whole of 2006 averaged 3.6 percent, practically unchanged from 2005.
Inegi said that 58 percent of working-age people either worked or sought work in the last month of last year. Close to 40 percent of those in work were employed in services, 20 percent in commerce, 16.5 percent in manufacturing, and 14 percent in agriculture, Inegi added.
The institute also reported that unemployment in the country%26#039;s 32 largest cities was 4.3 percent in December, up 0.53 percentage point from the year-earlier month.
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