{"id":43284,"date":"2013-07-30T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=43284"},"modified":"2013-07-30T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:24:48","slug":"unemployment-up-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/43284\/unemployment-up-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment up in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate has increased by 0.4 percent, Statistics SA (StatsSA) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This took the country&#8217;s official unemployment to 25.6 percent from 25.2 percent in the second quarter of 2013, StatsSA said in its Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS).<\/p>\n<p>The QLFS is a household-based sample survey conducted by StatsSA and covers the labour market activities of people aged 15 to 64.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to a year ago, unemployment in the second quarter of this year had increased by 5.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The number of discouraged work-seekers had increased by 35,000 from the first to the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The number of those &#8220;not economically active&#8221; had decreased by 145,000, resulting in a net decrease of 110,000.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA business and innovation status\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/35521\/sa-business-and-innovation-status\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA business and innovation status<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government failing ICT in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/35542\/government-failing-ict-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government failing ICT in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA ICT skills shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/35560\/shocking-sa-ict-skills-ranking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA ICT skills shock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SA ranked on VC funding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/35524\/sa-ranked-on-vc-availability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA ranked on VC funding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate has increased by 0.4 percent, Statistics SA (StatsSA) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,5769,3651],"class_list":["post-43284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-statssa","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43287,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284\/revisions\/43287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}