Zimbabwe – Unemployment rate at 10,7%

THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) yesterday revealed that the country’s unemployment rate was at 10,7 percent contrary to some figures some organisations have been using.

Addressing participants during the 2011 Labour Force and Child Labour Survey dissemination workshop in Bulawayo yesterday, Zimstat director-general Mr Mutasa Dzinotizei said reports that Zimbabwe has an unemployment rate of more than 70 percent were not based on empirical findings and hence were misleading.

“Unemployment is defined as all persons above a specified age, who during a reference period were without work or were not in paid employment or self employed. It refers to people who are available for work, people who are seeking work and have taken specific steps to seek for work or self employment,” said Mr Dzinotizei.

“On the basis of the 2011 Labour Force Survey unemployment rates in Zimbabwe, using broad and strict definitions were 10, 7 percent and 5, 4 percent respectively. These compare with the 9 percent and 4, 4 percent rates in 2004.”…

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