{"id":56857,"date":"2014-05-05T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=56857"},"modified":"2014-05-05T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:57:23","slug":"sa-unemployment-rate-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/56857\/sa-unemployment-rate-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"SA unemployment rate climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">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.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"arcticle_text\">More on South Africa&#8217;s employment<\/h3>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\"><a title=\"SA unemployment picture improves\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52983\/sa-unemployment-picture-improves\/\"><strong>SA unemployment picture improves<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Unemployment not the problem in SA \u2013 employment is\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/54258\/stop-trying-to-create-jobs-economist\/\"><strong>Unemployment not the problem in SA \u2013 employment is<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA youth unemployment shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/54433\/sa-youth-unemployment-shock\/\"><strong>SA youth unemployment shock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s unemployment rate rose to 25.2% of the labour force in the first quarter of 2014 from 24.1% in Q4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,4588,3745],"class_list":["post-56857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-employment","tag-statistics-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56857","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56861,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56857\/revisions\/56861"}],"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=56857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}