The number of job-seekers at the end of February was up 2.2%, or 14,600, from the same period a year earlier.
Almost 26.6% of the job-seekers had looked for employment for more than a year at the end of February, up 0.4 percentage points from one month earlier. Their number, 179,000, was up 7.1% yr/yr.
According to seasonally-adjusted data, the number of registered job-seekers was 606,900, down 21,800 from the previous month.
The number of new jobs announced in February rose 23.1%, or more than 8,000, from the previous month to 45,600. The number of new jobs was up 82.7%, or more than 20,000 yr/yr.
Around 70.8% of the new jobs were subsidized in some form by the state.
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