NUREMBERG. Aug 7: Germany recorded a seasonally adjusted increases of 5.000 jobs in July, even though the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 per cent from 9.9 per cent in June, the government said Tuesday, reports AP.

The seasonally adjusted data were significantly better than most economists had expected. Bernhard Jagoda, head of the Federal Labour Office, said the unadjusted figures make the job market ''look worse than it really is."

Unadjusted figures usually . show a loss of jobs in July because many factories and job training programmes shut down for summer holidays. But the seasonally adjusted figure, the one most closely watched by economists, looks more optimistic because it is averaged over a period of time.