SA unemployment rate climbs
·5 May 2014
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 25.2% of the labour force in the first quarter of 2014 from 24.1% in Q4, data showed on Monday.
In its quarterly labour force survey, which polls households, Statistics South Africa said this amounted to 5.067 million people without work in the first quarter, up from 4.83 million in the previous three months.
The expanded definition of unemployment, which includes people who have stopped looking for work, was at 35.1% in the first quarter from 34% previously.
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