The unemployment rate, 3.2 percent at the end of last year, is well below the nationwide rate of 5.6 percent.

This meant a higher cost nationwide rate call for most users.

In recent years, nationwide rates of new diagnoses and deaths from all cancers combined have fallen significantly.

The nationwide rate in September was 6.1 percent.

For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2006 was 13.9% and the nationwide rate was 11.6%.

It also said that the findings of the early puberty study coincided with a rise in nationwide rates of obesity.

Not surprisingly, these areas had some of the lowest nationwide rates of unemployment, helping to further demonstrate this correlation.

Because the nationwide jobless rate is about 25 percent, many families cannot afford to pay rent.

The nationwide rate, which is not fully comparable because of different survey procedures, has also been rising and now stands at 16 percent.

In the same period, the nationwide rate dropped 4 percent.