Over the past six months or so, with various efforts from the government, the jobless rate has gradually fallen, but average unemployment for 1997 as a whole was still more than 2.7 %, also a 12-year high.
最近半年多來，在政府多方努力下，失業率雖已緩步走低，但八十六年全年的平均失業率仍然超過百分之二．七，是十二年來的新高。