Blog: More Data Required to Provide Comprehensive Indicator of China’s Unemployment Rate

On Aug. 15, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) spokesman Fu Linghui announced at a press conference that the agency would suspend publishing the urban surveyed unemployment rate for different age groups, including youth, from that month.

The main reason for this decision was the constantly changing economic and social environment, which requires continuous improvement of statistical work, including the labor force survey and relevant statistics, said the spokesman.