The Central Statistical Office( CSO)Â says 16 percent of the 4.9 million persons available to engage in the labour market are unemployed.
CSO Acting Director, Modesto Banda, says according to the 2005 Labour Force Survey,
more males are currently unemployed in the country.
Addressing the Press during the presentation of the CSO monthly bulletin in Lusaka
today, Mr. Banda said 86 percent of males and 74 percent of females above the age of
15 are unemployed.
Mr. Banda said the majority of the unemployed people are in rural areas.
He said analysis by employment status and literacy shows that 29 percent of the
working persons in the labour force are illiterate while 71 percent are literate.
He noted that 44 percent of the literate persons were self-employed, 1 percent were
employers, 20 percent were paid employees and 35 percent were unpaid family workers.
ZANIS
Well, one needs to stretch their imagination here: the title and first sentence suggest that unemployment is only 16% while in the text further below it’s said 86% and 74% by gender are unemployed.
If indeed unemployment is 16%, what’s the definition as we know alot of what they call employment is just casualised,disguised unemployment. Really disburbing news that nearly 1 in 3 Zambian workers is illetrate. This cant be good for FDI.
A suggestion of increment is made without indicating from what previous level and year.
Perhaps Goverment should reduce the “red tape” associated with opening a business in Zambia..eg..took me 3 weeks just to register a company..3 weeks!!!!
….forgot to mention that this was with all the necessary paperwork!!!
Its up to the government to do something about this all alarming figures, i suggest that instead of stealing those billions they should channel it them in some way to job creation!!!!
Zedian
Hai its about time we change ,we send business men to china so that we can have the chines blankets on our streets , but we can not send experts to go and get knowledge on how best we can use chines machines on our soil to produce those goods so that our people can be in employment its time we think and drive the nation forwad ,the future lies in our hands .we should focus our minds on local production not on imported finished commodities .
Hai its about time we change ,we send business men to china so that we can have the chines blankets on our streets , but we can not send experts to go and get knowledge on how best we can use chines machines on our soil to produce those goods so that our people can be in employment its time we think and drive the nation forwad ,the future lies in our hands .we should focus our minds on local production not on imported finished commodities .
It is indeed very sad that unemployment has risen to alarming levels where in other countries across the world there are riots and demonstrations, think of Tunisia, Niger delter to name a few. I, Stembridge Mwangala as a founder President of FACE-Zambia, encourage fellow Zambians and Africans to join hands with FACE and advocate to create Jobs that will reduce poverty and HIV/AIDS. Please stop looking to Governements all the time. It simply doesn’t work out that way! Stembridge Mwangala.
From the above comments in relation to the stats given above,one tends to wonder what the pronouncements really mean when the politicians say that there is economic growth in the country.the levels of unemployment is on the increase.The government should create opportunities in the labour intensive sectors such as manufacturing,tourism and agriculture.
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We are realy suffering.the information helped a lot bcoz I was doing my assignmet on unemploment