MACAO, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The general unemployment rate in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) remained steady at 1.7 percent from February to April this year, as compared with that of the previous period from January to March, the SAR's statistics service said on Monday.
Information from the Statistics and Census Service also indicated that the unemployment rate of local residents held steady at 2.3 percent from February to April this year, as compared with that of the previous period.
Meanwhile, the underemployment rate was 0.5 percent, up by 0.1 percentage point.
The total labour force was 391,900 and the labour force participation rate was 70.0 percent.
Total employment was 385,300 and the number of employed residents totalled 280,100, down by 1,800 and 1,900 respectively from the previous period.
Analysed by industry, employment in restaurants and similar activities (24,300) decreased by 600, while that in gaming and junket activities (85,200) went up by 1,200.
The number of the unemployed was 6,600, up by 100 from the previous period.
New labour market entrants seeking their first job accounted for 10.3 percent of the total unemployed, up by 1.8 percentage points.
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