According to the institute that oversees the country’s statistics, the provisional estimate of the unemployment rate for August is 6.2%, down 0.2 percentage points compared to July.

July's unemployment rate of 6.4%, was 0.1 percentage points less from the previous month, 0.2 points less than three months earlier, and 0.4 points less than the same month in 2018.

The July figure represents a downward revision of 0.1% from the provisional estimate released a month ago.