The rate was down from the previous period of May-July, 6.8% and from 7.7% of the same period a year earlier, data by KSH suggest.
The data include people with all forms of employment contracts who have worked more than one hour a week during the period or are on sick leave or paid absence, and also include fostered workers employed by the government.
The number of 15–74 year-old unemployed men decreased by 24,000 to 155,000, and their unemployment rate by 1.1 percentage points to 6.3%, while the number of unemployed women declined by 15,000 to 149,000, and their unemployment rate by 0.9 percentage points to 7.1%, KSH reported.
The average duration of unemployment changed from 18.7 to 19.2 months; 48.5% of unemployed people had been searching for a job for one year or more, i.e. were long-term unemployed, KSH added.
K&H Bank chief analyst Dávid Németh told Hungarian news agency MTI that the unemployment rate was likely to be under 7% for the rest of the year and put the average annual rate at around 7%.
Erste analyst Vivien Barczel, in speaking to MTI, also put the average annual rate at around 7%. Although the rate could edge up a couple of tenths of a percentage point in the coming months, it will not reach the 7% threshold, she added.
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