{"id":586996,"date":"2023-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/21\/unemployment-steady-in-1q-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"unemployment-steady-in-1q-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/21\/unemployment-steady-in-1q-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment steady in 1Q 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Egypt\u2019s unemployment came in at 7.1% in 1Q 2023<\/span><span style=\"\">, down 0.1 percentage points from <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/7fe9c683-f7b7-4197-9992-c37abd08bdfd\" style=\"\">the<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/7fe9c683-f7b7-4197-9992-c37abd08bdfd\" style=\"\">final quarter of 2022<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\">,<\/span><span style=\"\"> according to <\/span><span style=\"\">data <\/span><span style=\"\">from statistics agenc<\/span><span style=\"\">y Capmas<\/span><span style=\"\">. The jobless rate was also down 0.1 percentage points from the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/fdc538eb-17e8-4d52-b43d-e602878b8e18\" style=\"\">same period last year<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">REMEMBER- The headline rate doesn\u2019t tell the whole story: <\/span><span style=\"\">The unemployment rate doesn\u2019t <\/span><span style=\"\">count people of working age who are not looking for jobs or <\/span><span style=\"\">who are unable to work. <\/span><span style=\"\">The labor force participation rate \u2014 which counts everyone aged 15-64 either in work or actively looking for work \u2014 rose to 43.0%, up from 42.8%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> in both the previous year and the previous quarter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Un<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">employment among women<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> remained mostly unchanged: <\/span><span style=\"\">The jobless rate among <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">women decreased 0.1 percentage points from the quarter before to 19.2%. Unemployment among men dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.5%. Unemployment among women is consistently much higher than among men. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The proportion of young people out of work was unchanged <\/span><span style=\"\">from 4Q 2022,<\/span><span style=\"\">with 15-29 <\/span><span style=\"\">year-olds accounting f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">or 63.0% of all jobless people in 1Q 2023. 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