The unemployment rate last month increased by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month to 3.0%.The trend means that 8759 job seekers started looking for work last month.
Data last month showed that the male unemployment rate was 3.2%, while the female unemployment rate reached 2.7%.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the unemployment rate in September was 9 percentage points lower than the same period last year.
