Tag: Labour statistics

  • Zimbabwe shows how unemployment reporting is riddled with technicalities

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    Zimbabwe shows how unemployment reporting is riddled with technicalities Unemployment reporting is convoluted and depending on who you ask the numbers tell different stories. Take Zimbabwe for instance – if you ask for the country’s unemployment rates, you’ll get three different figures from two different sources.  What makes things confusing is that all these figures…

  • Data is complicated and Mozambique’s labour market illustrates why…

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    Data is complicated and Mozambique’s labour market illustrates why… Taken at face value statistics can be misleading. Take Mozambique’s labour statistics for instance. When you look at the fact that the country boasts a 98.4% female-to-male labor force participation (LFP) ratio one would think the country is a utopia for gender equality.  On paper, women…