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Belize Work Force Mostly Uneducated
posted (August 27, 2015)
Yesterday we told you about the labour force survey - which showed that unemployment was down. But the survey does much more than determine the unemployment rate - it also monitors work trends, who's entering the work force and who is leaving.

The survey found that more females than ever are entering the work force, and the more educated a female is - the more likely she is to find work. Now, overall far more men are employed, but women with tertiary education - have almost exactly the same employment rate as men. And because more women have tertiary education than men, in this sector of the workforce, there are actually more women employed than men - fifteen thousand compared to 11 thousand.

Keeping it on education, perhaps the most alarming finding in the labour force survey is that 55% of the workforce has completed primary educator or less. That means that more than half of the workforce would be considered un-educated.





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