{"id":91930,"date":"2015-06-30T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=91930"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:31:07","slug":"here-is-how-many-domestic-workers-south-africa-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/91930\/here-is-how-many-domestic-workers-south-africa-has\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is how many domestic workers South Africa has"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data reveals that South Africa has in excess of one million domestic workers, accounting for more than 8% of the total workforce of the country.<\/p>\n

The report, the National and provincial labour market, Youth Q1:2008-Q1:2015<\/em> found that at national level, the vast majority of employed youth have either semi-skilled (53.1% in\u00a0 2015) or low-skilled occupations (29.2%).<\/p>\n

A relatively low proportion have skilled positions (17.7%).<\/p>\n

Elementary jobs dominate the occupational profile of both youth and adults, accounting in 2015 for one in every four\u00a0 jobs among youth (25.4%) and one in every five (21.8%) among adults.<\/p>\n

Sales occupations rank second among both youth and adults, but this occupation accounts for a larger share of employment among youth (19.1% in 2015) compared to adults (13.6%).<\/p>\n

Over the period 2008 – 2015, among youth, the largest decline in occupational shares occurred among craft workers while for adults it occurred among technicians, StatsSA said.<\/p>\n

\"Trends<\/a>

Trends in employment (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2015 was at its highest level since 2003, Statistics SA reported in May.<\/p>\n

The results of the first quarter showed that the working age population was 35.8 million, which included 15.5 million employed, 5.5 million unemployed and 14.8 million not economically active.<\/p>\n

You must provide accommodation for your domestic worker: Minister<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Are you paying your domestic worker enough?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA domestic worker minimum wage increased<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New data has revealed the number of domestic workers South Africa has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":91944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,5769],"class_list":["post-91930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-statssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91930","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92154,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91930\/revisions\/92154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}