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South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate had increased from 24.9% to 25.5% in the third quarter of 2012, said Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Releasing the third Quarter Labour Force Survey (QLFS) on Thursday, Stats SA said the number of unemployed persons, at 4.6 million in the third quarter of 2012, was the highest level since the QLFS commenced in 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number of unemployed persons rose to 4.5 million in the first quarter of 2012, but declined by 56 000 persons between the first and second quarter of 2012, while there was an increase of 197 000 between the second quarter of 2012 and the third quarter of 2012,\u201d Stats SA said.<\/p>\n
The agency attributed the rise to job losses in domestic households and the mining sector, which has been under pressure from a wave of wildcat strikes.<\/p>\n
Stats SA said the labour force had increased by 397 000 persons between the second quarter of 2012 and the third quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis increase was reflected in an increase in the number of both employed persons (198 000) and unemployed persons (197 000).\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Stats SA said since 2008 there had been a rise in employment during the fourth quarter of every year, followed by a decline in the subsequent quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmployment in the informal sector increased by 112,000 while formal sector jobs increased by 92,000 and Agriculture by 23,000 in the third quarter,\u201d said the agency.<\/p>\n
Driving the increase in employment was an increase in all sectors except private households.<\/p>\n
Employment in the informal sector increased by 112 000, while formal sector jobs increased by 92 000 and agriculture by 23 000 in the third quarter of 2012. Employment in private households decreased by 29 000 (2.5%) in the third quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n
The number of discouraged work-seekers declined by 141 000 between the second quarter of 2012 and the third quarter of 2012, while other (not economically active) declined by 140 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompared to a year ago, employment increased by 2.5% (327 000), unemployment increased by 5.1% (225 000), the number of discouraged work-seekers decreased by 1.5% (34 000) and other (not economically active) decreased by 0.4% (56 000) in the third quarter of 2012, resulting in a net decrease of 90 000 among the not economically active population,\u201d said Stats SA.<\/p>\n
Recently there had been increasing interest in the challenges faced by young people in the labour market.\u00a0 Approximately a third of the youth aged 15-24 years were not in employment, education or training (NEET) in the third quarter of 2012, which indicates the vulnerability of this group. According to Stats SA in the third quarter of 2012, about 3.2 million of the youth were NEET. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/p>\n
Editors Notes<\/strong>: 25% is a BIG (measured) number. The barriers to small informal business to formalise and enter the formal sector to create more jobs are still far too high. The regulatory and taxation environment are having a crippling effect on freeing entrepreneurs to create much needed jobs.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa\u2019s unemployment rate had increased from 24.9% to 25.5% in the third quarter of 2012, said Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday. Releasing the third Quarter Labour Force Survey (QLFS) on Thursday, Stats SA said the number of unemployed persons, at 4.6 million in the third quarter of 2012, was the highest level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-16119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}