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COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA LABOUR FORCE SURVEY November 1999 ... ... Central Statistical Office Ministry of Anance And Planning KeMedy Avenue Roseau Dominica • Labour Force Survey 1999 • PREFACE The 1999 Labour Force Survey was conducted from November 16 and covered a four week period.

The previous Labour Force survey was conducted in 1997 and such surveys will continue on a two year interval.
The Central Statistical Office expresses its sincere gratitude to those involved in the survey and persons who gave their full cooperation to the enumerators particularly in the interview stage of the survey.

We also wish to acknowledge the valuable contribution ofMr Desmond Hunte, Survey Consultant in this exercise Chief Statistician • r • Labour Force Survev 1999 PREFACE ... SURVEY DESIGN .

CONCEPT AND DEFINITIONS ANALYSIS .

TABLES • TABLE OF CONTENTS .

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13 14 15 16 ESTIMATED NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION BY AGE AND SEX 1999 SUMMARY TABLE OF 15 YEARS AND OVER POPULATION BY EMPLOYMENT STATE 1999 .

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NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OVER & LABOUR FORCE BY EMPLOYMENT STATUS.

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.. NON-INSTITUTIONAL POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OVER & LABOUR FORCE BY EMPLOYMENT STATUS.

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EMPLOYED PERSONS BY LEVEL OF EDUCATION.


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DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY OCCUPATION FOR WHlCH TRAINlED .

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II 11 12 13 14 14 DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT AND SEX 15 DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY OCCUPATION AND SEX DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY AND SEX .. DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY ACTUAL AND USUAL HOURS WORKED PER WEEK AND SEX.... .
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS WORKlNG LESS THAN 32 HOURS PER WEEK.... .

DISTRIBUTION OF MULTIPLE JOB-tlOLDERS BY MAIN AND SECONDARY .

STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT.. DISTRIBUTION OF MULTIPLE JOB-HOLDERS BY MAIN AND SECONDARY OCCUPATION... .

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DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY MONTHLY lNCOME GROUP AND .

SEX NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS WHO HA VE .

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PAID HELP... 15 .16 j7 18 19 20 21 21 DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD Of HOUSEHOLD AND SEX .

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.. 22 • • Labour Force Survcv 1999 17 UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND SEX 18 UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY RELATTONSHlP TO HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD AND SEX.. 19 DISTRIBUTION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT 20 DISTRIBUTION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY LENGTH OF TIME WITHOUT WORK................... 21 DISTRIBUTION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY OF LAST EMPLOYMENT......... 22 DISTRIBUTION OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY OF LAST EMPLOYMENT.......... 23 YOUTH IN THE LABOUR FORCE BY SINGLE YEARS OF AGE AND SEX.. 24 UNEMPLOYED YOUTH BY SINGLE YEARS OF AGE AND SEX.... 25 DISTRIBUTION OF YOUTH NOT IN LABOUR FORCE BY REASON FOR UNAVAILABILITY............. .21 2.\ 21 ."
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26 PERSONS NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE BY PARISH AND SEX .

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POPULATION RATES BY PARISH AND SEX.. ' ... _ AGE SPECIFIC PARTICIPATION RATES BY SEX ...... UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY SEX AND PARISH .

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EMPLOYED PERSONS BY INCOME GROUP ..

PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY ACTUAL NUMBER OF HOURS WORKED EMPLOYED PERSONS BY OCCUPATION ... .

EMPLOYED PERSONS BY INDUSTRY 27 27 2S 28 29 30 .11 .

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UNEMPLOYED PERSONS BY LENGTH OF TIME WITHOUT WORK .. .. ......... 18 Labour Force Survev t999 The Dominica Labour Force Survey 1999 Introduction The Dominica Labour Force Survey was designed as a Household Survey with its primal]' objective being to provide up to date data on the labour force characteristics of the Population of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
The design also affords the ability to measure actual changes in the characteristics of the labour force if surveys are conducted on a continuing basis, besides providing estimates of the current levels of employment and unemployment.

The survey design can also be used as a vehicle for conducting other household surveys which can provide data on subjects of interest to both government and the private sector for the purposes of planning and formulating policies.
Survey Design The Dominica Labour Force Survey Design is a two stage sample design" ith the selectIOn of the primary sampling units (P.S.U.)

at first stage being proportional to size.

The primal]' sampling units are the enumeration districts (ED's) into which the country was sub-<livided for the conduct of censuses.

The second stage is the selection of the ultimate sampling units (U.S U.)

which are clusters of household one selected from each of the selected P,S.u.
The sampling frame for the survey design was the 1991 Population and Housing Census This provided the data for allocating the sample by parishes, as well as the ordering of ED's within parish Administratively, Dominica is divided up into eleven (II) parishes, namelv Roseau, rest of St. George, St. John, St. Peter, St. Joseph, St. Paul, St. Luke, St. Mark, St. Patrick, St. David and St. Andrew.
For ease of enumeration during the Population and Housing Censuses, these parish diviSIons are further broken down into enumeration districts (ED's).

The number of ED's in a parish diviSIOn varies, and range from 48 in Roseau, to 5 each in St. Peter and in St. Luke.

However.

for the survey St. John and 51.

Peter being contiguous parishes were joined together.

The same was done with St. _..- Luke and St. Mark.


Besides the variation in the number of ED's in each parish, within eaeh of these parishes there arc also variations in the sizes of the ED's both in terms of the number of households and the population.

For example during the 1991 Population and Housing Census the size of ED's in Roseau ranged from 178 households in the largest ED to 34 in the smallest.

However, the majority· arc close to the average of 80 households.
The same applies to all of the other panshes although the average size of the EDs varied However, the largest ED was in St. Patrick WIth 211 households.

• the resources available.

For the Labour Force Survey it was determined that a sample size of about 1200 would be adequate taking into account to have these 1200 it was neccssarv for the households distributed almost evenly over a three month period.

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survey design to take into account the need to have each parish division adequately represented, However, because of time constraints, it became necessarY to CQnduet the survey oyer a one month period In addition it was neccssal]' Labour Force Suryev 1999 1 In order to incorporate the above mcntioned features in the desIgn a two stagc sample dcslgn \\ as developed.

At the fIrst stage ED's (P.S.U.)

are selected with probabilit,· proportional to theIr size (fal at the time of the 1991 Census.
At the second stage a cluster of households is selected from each selected ED with a probability (fb) so that is that each household has the same probability (t) of being selected.

That f ~ fa )( fb .
the end result The total number of households in thc country was broken up into clusters of 8 households each Each parish was then allocated a number of clusters in proportion to its size, thc number of households at the time of the census with the proviso that it must bc a multiple of 30 Within caeh parish each ED was assigned a number of clusters which must be an integer, in proportion to its s(le, the sum of clusters of all ED's being equal to the number of clusters assigned to the parish.
This meant that the average cluster size varied slightly between parishes and was not 8 households but close to that size.

that is, ED's within each parish were put in descending order of the proportion of workcrs in a given occupation/industrial group depending on whether the parish was considered urban or rural.
In the urban parishes of Roseau, and the rest of St. George the occupational grouping used was a combinatIOn of Managers, Senior Public officials, Professionals and sub-professionals All other parishes were treated as rural and the criterion was the proportIOn of workers engaged in agriculture.

Having arranged the ED's in this manner a s\'stematic selection of ED's was made with an IlIterval ot' 10.

The ED's thus selected formed a grand sample consisting of 3 sub samples.

These were number 10 I.


102, 103,201, 202, 203 etc the last digit being the sub sample number.

For the 1999 Labour Force Survey sub samples J and 2 were chosen.

The sampling fraction was thus 2/3 x III 0 ~ III'.

TIllS sampling fraction was e)(peeted to yield apprO'umately 1200 households.

Because of the time that had elapsed between the fornmtion of thc framc.
1991. and the conduct of the survey, 1999, changes in the sizes of most ED's would havc resulted duc to populallon incrcases as well as population loss.

It was therefore necessary to carry out a ncw listing of selected ED's from which the sample of households would be drawn.
For the listing of an enumeration district, the interviewer was given fi.lll details of the boundaries of that district which aimed at ensuring that every building in the country is identified with one and onh' one enumeration distnct.

He/she was also given a sketch map of thc enumcration district which clearly showed thesc boundaries.

and which includcd all roads and traces as well as othcr uscful land marks.

These sketch maps, except in the few cases in which morc reccnt sketch maps had been prepared.
were the maps which were prepared for and used at the 1991 Census of PopulatIon.

The sketch map also showed the point at which the enumerator should bcgin his/her listing and indicated by arrows the direction which the he/she had to follow.

At the hsting stage, the interviewer was rcquircd to visit cyery building and to list and serially number every single household in the enumeration district in a Listing Record.
To select the cluster of household which was to be enumerated within a given enumcration district (first stage sampling unit) the "Listing Records" were returned to the office where the c1ustcr of households for the enumeration was selected as a systematic sample of households" ith a random starting point.

The sampling interval at thIS stagc was equal to the number of sampling tllllts allocated Labour Force Survev 1999 to the enumeration distriel.

The tenn "clustcr" in the survey docs not, thcrcfore.
necessa" rclate to a group of eontiguous households, to which is the tenn nonnally refers.

The sampling fraction at the second stage, (i.e.

for the selected of the cluster of households), was therefore inversely proportional to the size (number of sampling units) of the E. D. It should be noted.
however, that the actual number of households in a cluster in any given enumeration district was not predetennined, but depended upon the number of households existing in the enumeration distflct at the time of listing A total of 160 Clusters were sclected.

which were expeetcd to vield the 1200 households.

Concepts and Definitions Household It consists of one or more persons living together (i.e.
sleepmg most mghts of a week), who OCCUPY a whole or part of a dwelling unit,-who have common arrangements for housekceping and who share at least one daily meal.

It is important to note that a member of a household need not be a relativc ofthc main family, ego a boarder or a domestic servant who sleeps in most nights a week is a member of the houschold.

It is possible for a household to consist of JUst one person, or of more than onc family.

as long as they share living arrangements.


A group of unrelated pcrsons living together call also eompflse a household.

Head of Household For survey purposes every household must hayc a hcad.

The head is idcntified in the following situations: In a one person household, that person is the head.

The person who carries the main responsibility for the affairs of the household and/or IS the chief breadwinner is the head of the household.
The person recognized as the head of the household b\· the respondent(s) should be aeceptcd as such for survey purposes.

In the case of a group of unrelated persons, sharing a dwelling on an cqual basis.

that mcmbcr of the group whom others acknowledge as such should be taken as the head A person running a srnaJI guest house is considered to be the head of that household.

the respondent does not accept the idea ofa head, assign a head, and continue the interview.
In cases where Economically Active Population The economically active population composes all persons of either sex who furnish thc supply of labour for the production of goods and services as defined by the United Nation S\'stcm of l"ational Accounts and Balances, during a specified reference period.
According to these systems the production of goods and services includes all production and the processing of primary products, whether for the market for barter, or for O\\TI consumption, production of all other goods and services for the market and, in the case of the households which produce such goods and services for the market, the corresponding production for own consumption.
Labour Force Sun"Y 1999 Age Limit and Scope for Economic Actiyity 'The age limit used in th,s survey is 15 years, which is inline 'nth the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for the Population Housing Censuses Labour Force The tenn "Labour Force" refers to the categories of persons according Lo their activities during thc short reference period (such as one week or one day) by using a specific set of rules Labour Force Population = Employed + Uncmployed = Labour Force + Not in the Labour Force Priority Rules The labour force framework uses a set of priority rules for classif\ing the working age population Into three basic categories of the framework: precedence is glYen to employment over unemployment and unemployment over economic inactivity.
Persons Not in the Labour Force Persons not in the labour force, or, equivalent, in the "population not currently active", comprises all persons not classified as employed or unemployed during the reference period and hence not currently active, including children and young people below the age specified for measuring the economically active population, Employed Persons According to the 1982 international definition of employment (lLO 1983) the "employed" comprises all persons above the specified age for measuring the economleallv active population "ho during the specified period (one week or one day) were in the categories: Paid employment: "at work" persons who during the reference period, perfoffiled some work for the wages or salary, in cash or in kind: "witb a job but not at work" persons who haVIng already worked in their present .lob, \vere temporarily not at work during the reference period but had a fonnal attachment to their job Self employment: "at work" persons, who perfonned some.work for profit or family gain.
in cash or kind: "with an enterprise but not at work" persons \\.th an cnterprise, a faml or a scn icc undertaking, who were temporarily not at work during the reference period for some spee.fic reason.

The One Hour Criterion The one hour criterion in the definition of employment is to cover all types of emplovment that ma\ exist in a given country, including short-time work, casual labour.

stand-by work and other tvpcs of It is also a necessary criterion if total emplov'mcnt irregular employment.
is to correspond to aggregate production.

The one hour criterion in the definition of employment is also fundamental in defIning unemployment as a situation of total lack of work.

Unpaid Family Worker Unpaid family workers, though participating in the activities of a household enterprise, arc not Labour Force Survey 1999 considered to have an enterprise of their won.

Accordingly.
Accordingly.

they cannot be "with an enterprise but not at work" and therefore unpaid family workers not at work arc not to be Included among the emploYed.

• Hours of Work The notion hours of work is directly linked to the concept of employment SlllCC the term "some work" in the international definition of employment, is to one interpreted as '·work for at least one hour' during the reference period.
Among the various concept of hours of "ark two have particular relevance in the labour force surveys: actual and usual hours of work Thirty-two hours of work pcr week is the dividing line between fulJ-time and part-time employment Status in Employment Status in employment serves to classiry employed persons according to their employer.
The classification thus used are public scetor employee, private sector employee, employer, that is a self employed person with paid employee(s), own account worker, that is a self-employed person with no paid help, and unpaid family worker, that is someone employed in a family business or enterprise but does not receive a wage or salaI)'.

Occupation A set of jobs whose main tasks and duties are characterised by a lugh degrec of similarity constitutcs an occupation.
Persons are classified by occupation through their relationship to a past present or future job.

A job is defined as a set of tasks or duties exccuted or meant to bc executcd bv a pcrson.
Industry The classes (industries) of ISle are defined so that as far as possible the followmg n\o conditions arc satisfied: (a) the production of the category of goods and services which characterize a given elass accounts for the bulk of the output of the umts classified to that class; and (b) the class contains the units which produce most of the category of goods and services which characterize it This first condition is required in order that establishments or similar units, may be classified according to kind of economic activity uniquely and easily and in order that the units included in a given class will be as similar to each other as feasible.
Unemployment The concept of unemployment (ILO 1983) is based on three criteria to be satisfied simultancously: "without work", "currently available for work" and "seeking work".

Accordingly.

the "unemployed" comprises all persons above the age specified for measuring the economically active popu-lation v·;ho during the reference period were: • '·without work", i.e.
were not in paid employment or self-emplovment as specified by the international definition of employment; '·eufTently available for work", i.e.

were available for paid employmGnt or self-employment during the reference period: • "seeking work'·, employment or self-emplo)menl.

i.e.

had taken specific steps in a specified recent penod to scck paid For purposes of the Dominica Labour Force Survey the reference period for seeking "ork was 1 months.
Labour Force Survey 1999 (, Data Highlights Introduction • The analysis that follows, focuses firstly on the age, education and area of residence of the persons that comprise the labour force of Dominica.

It then looks at the characteristics of the employed and unemployed persons separately.

It then examines the youth, that is persons IS to 24 years of age, followed by an examination of those persons that are Ollt of the labour force.
Some comparison is made with the results of the 1997 survey mainly to highlight any major differences or changes.

It is also necessary to point out that Table 2 and succeeding tables are based on the'>lITVey, while table I is based on mid-year estimates In addition.
totals will not always be the same, because of rounding off Labour Force The first and most striking difference between the results of the 1997 and 1999 surveys was the decline in the total unemployment rate from 23.J % to 15.7%, a decline of almost one third.

This decline was about the same for both males, 19.6% to 13 1%, as it was for females, 27.2% to 19.4%.
Of significance also, were the increase in participation rate for males, 74.9% to 75.5% and the decline in participation rate among females, 596% to 545% (Table 2) At a parish level, there were declines in the participation rate for Roseau, the rest of SI.

George, SI.

John/SI.

Peter, SI.

Paul, SI.

Patrick and SI.

Andrew.

The largest decline took place;n SI.

John/St.

Peter from 70.8% to 598% followed by rest of St George from 73.7% to 64.0%, while for SI.
Paul the decline was minimal 739% to 73.1 In SI.

Luke/St Mark there was a significant increase, from 57.2% to 67.4% and to a lesser extent in St. David where it increased from 62.2% to 712%.(Table3).

• While SI.

Patrick showed the highest decrease in unemployment rate from 45.9% to 324%.

the unemployment rate in this parish was the highest overall among the parishes The same picture was reflected among the data for both males and females.

As in 1997.

SI.
As in 1997.

SI.

Andrew had the lowest unemployment rate, 5.3%, followed by SI.

Joseph, 10.0%, and St John/SI.

Peter, 113%.

However, the unemployment rate by parish and sex reflected a ditferent picture.

Among males, SI.

Andrew had the lowest unemployment rate, 3.6%, but was followed by St. David, 4.8%, and then SI.

Joseph, 7.1%, the only parishes with single digit unemployment rates.

Among the females, only SI.

Andrew had single digit unemployment rates, 8.2% SI.

John/SI.
John/SI.

Peter, 10.8%, and Roseau, 12.5%, followed this.

The unemployment rate remained significantly high among females in SI.

Paul (24 1%) SI.

Luke/51.

Mark (32.6%), SI.

Patrick (35.6%) and SI.

David (269%) 1t should be noted that among males it was only in St. Patrick (30.5%) was the unemployment rate above 20% (Table3).

Labour Force SUITev 1999 7 The data revealed that there was a steady ded ine in the unemployment rate as age increased regardless of sex.
As might be expected the unemployment among the youth was the highest with those aged IS to 19 years having an unemployment rate of 42.8% and those 20 to 24 years a rate of 27.4%.

The rates were slightly higher among young females than among young males.

The labour force participation rate showed a general increase with age peaking at age 40 to 44 years and declining thereafter.
(Table 4) , The Employed The vast majority (612%) of the employed had a primary education, 17,157 out 01'27,999, with a further 5,680 (20.3%) having a secondary education.

However, there was a significant difference between the sexes.

Almost half the employed females, 5,799 (53%) out of 10,962, had a primary education with a further 3,074 (28%) having a secondary education.
Among the males, 11,358 (67%) of the 17,059 employed had a primary education with a further 2,606 (15%) having a secondary education (Table 5) In terms of training, just over half (53.9%) of those employed had no occupational training with the situation about the same for both males and females However, employed females tended to have better training than their male counterparts, as managers, technicians and clerks.
However, in the professional and craft related fields, a greater proportion of males had training.

(Table 6) As in 1997, the private sector was the biggest employer accounting for 397% of all employed persons (Table 7).

This, however, was a decline from 1997 when the proportion was 44.3%.

However, as in 1997, among females the proportion employed in the private sector, 45.6%, was greater than among males, 35.9% The majority of males were self employed.
The proportion of workers in the public sector declined from 21 J% to 188% (5,460 to 5,286).
This was true for both males and females In terms of occupation, the majority of persons were employed in agricultural occupation, 6,840 or 24.4%, with males dominating this sector, 5,488 or 32.2% of all employed males For females, the dominant occupation was elementary occupations, particularly workers in private homes, which accounted for 2,397 Qr 22.8% of all employed females fol/owed by service and sales workers, 1,742 (15.9%), clerks, 1,516 (13.8%), and technicians or sub professionals, 1,557 (14,2%).
Only 27% of all employed persons were professionals (Table8).

Following the trend in occupations, the data revealed that 7,208 (25.7%) were employed in The the agriculture industry of which 5,446 were males and 1,762, females (Table 9) wholesale and retail trade was the next major industry accounting for 4,059 or 14.7% of al/ employed persons.

Among males, 2,098 or 12.3%, found employment in the construction industry and 1,949 (11.6%) in the wholesale and retail trade.
Among females, the wholesale and retail trade was industry of employment, 2, II 0 (19.2%) followed by agriculture and private the largest homes Education also accounted for a large proportion, 9.2%, of employed females Labour Force SUlW\' 1999 Over 60% of all workers usually worked 40 or more hours per week and in fact did so during the November 1999 Survey Week.

(Table 10).
(Table 10).

However 11% worked less than 20 hours Generally males work more hours than females under normal circumstances and this was reflected in the data Sixty-five percent of employed males worked 40 hours and more as compared 605% for females.

, Of those persons who worked less than 32 hours, but were available for additional work during the reference week, 42.0% reported that full-time work for them was less than 32 hours.
However 30.3% reported that they were available for additional work hut could not find any.

(Table1]).

A total of 1,874 persons or 6.7% of all employed persons were engaged in a second job.

The majority of these were males, 1,505.

Most of them, 1,073, worked as own account workers in their second job or in the private sector, 609.

These accounted for 89.9% of secondary jobs.

By comparison in their main jobs, the private sector accounted for 336%, while 372% were own account workers.
However, a significant proportion, 224%, was employed in the public sector.

About one third of all females who had a second job, worked in the publ ic sector in their main job compared with 197% among males (Table 12) Generally persons with more than one job worked in agricultural occupations, ] 73%, or in elementary occupations such as labourers, 20.1%, or as craft related workers such as masons, carpenters etc.

14.6% In addition, they worked in these same occupations in their second jobs (Table lJ).
This pattern was about the same for both males and females The median income for all workers was $834 per month, that is, 50% of all workers wcre earning less than $834 per month Only 12.9% reported income of $2000 per month or more Among females the median income was $713 per month with 11.7% reporting incomes of $2000 per month and more.
Among males the median income was $892 with 13.6% reporting monthly incomes in excess of $2000 per month (Table 14) The majority (538%) of selt~employed persons employed 2 to 4 persons, significant proportion, 22.3%, reported having 10 or more persons employed (Table 15) • though a The Unemplo)'ed There were 5,207 unemployed persons of whom 2,564 were males and 2,643 were females The respective unemployed rates were 15.7%, 13.1% and 194%.
Lnemployment rates were highest among those with just a primary education, 17.7% or a secondary education, 14.9%, although it was also high, 144%, among those with a technical/vocational education.

The pattern was basicall y the same among both males and females (See Tables 2,3 and 17) A substantial proportion, 26.0%, of the unemployed had never worked before.

Howcver, 77.8% of those who had worked before.

had worked in the private sector, while 11.95 had worked in the public sector.
This pattern was true for both males and females (Table 19) • Labo\ll Force SUr\ev i'J99 Overall about one third of the unemployed and about 452"'0 or' thtlSc \,n" experience had not vvorked for a year or h!lg\~r prior to the survey' pruportion was 5S.3~/~, while tfJf males it L:(J~;e~;, uf l!

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",vcr); expcrienc{' only Je::;5 than 5~/'J was {lut :":( '.... ·j~k L;ss than nne nWiith ITil~'k' :{q lia{' 1"'.

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"~" thif' bri':r Pl'l::\.l~·".L; ·~·va5 35,2~:; [n all those whe had rreviou~ly worked, th~ vas!

el~n~e"i:lr', Of occupalions (46 1%) most probably labourers, perhaps in the aEriculture and construction industries.

For males, this occupational group accounted fl,r 506% of the unemplo;'ed who For !nilles.

crall and related had previously worked as compared with 41 5% for females occupation (252%) and servi.
:.e and sales workers (110%) were the next 0ccupatinn, in s""ice and sales workers (2(,\':',) and clerk, which thev had worked while for female:" (8 5%) "Were the dominant occupation (Table 21) rnajDritv hrrd w(·rked ir.

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The majority of males (40.7%) last worked in the construction illdustrv, with agriculture (13.2%) being the next dominant sector in which they worked the highest proportion, 23.4%, had last worked in private homes, followed by the manufacturing sector (170%) (Table 22) the unemployed were similar to that observed in ] 997 The observed patterns by occupation and industnal spctor Cor flll fellLale,.

Youth Tables 23 and 24 provide data on 15-24 year old youth by single year age.
I\S might be expected the participation rate increases with age, while the unemployment rate declines with age Youth who were not in the labour force were mainlv in school, 777~o overalL 8.+ 0" 0 for males and 72.5% for females with 204% of females engaged in household activities Overall, 40.5% of all youth were out oftne labour force, 363% t"r msies and 461":, f~" females (Table 25) Out of Labour Force A total of 17,624 persons were out of the labour force, 6,272 males and 11,532 females The majority of persons out of the labour force came from Roseau 22 2%, 5t Patrick, 14 ~O'o or 51.
Andrew, 14.5%, and it was the same pattern for both males and females (Table 26) • The age groups at the ends of the spectrum, 15 to 19 years (n 8% I and 65 years and (l"cr (374%) accounted fur most of the persons out of the lahour force The numbers were 4,037 and 6,625 persons respectively Among the other age groups the nurnh~rs ranged [',um, 4')5 to those 45 to 49 years and 95'C' for those aged 25 to 29 years fhe 60 to 64 yed{' uld accounted for 1,243 persons (Table 27).
The majority, 11,666 (65 9%), had just a primary education, although 3.404 II') 2",,) had 3 secondary education and 209 (l 2%) had a university education A tDtal of ".51.

'1 IJ I 10 oj persons \.verc out of the labour force because (~f ol.j agE' or ic1 ir:;:k"rt.

\\ it h a krtlK'f ~,f~ 2 (206%) being ill or disahled.

The others were engaged in h>l\lsdlOld ,htlcs .+ I 7{) !

~) h' ,,) most of these being females.

3,873. or at '';-'.
:r.Plll, 3,727 (21 nO;i) (l:lble .~';l Llbour Force Sun·o;:\ 1999 The vast majority of persons out of the labour I,xce were supp0l1~d by friends 01 rddti\ (', including parents (537%) or by their spouse/pa/1ner (19 8~,o) A smaller pr"portir'n ti-£' A sma:: retirees most proportion ;(" likely, supported themselves ITom savings/imestmcnls (10,)° 0 ) rell1;ttan('es rlepenctent (3 S%) (T8hl,e ~hn)8d fnwl WHS on • Labour Force Sun'e)' 1999 II Table l. Estimated Non-Institutional Population by Age and Sex, 1999 • AGE GROUP 00-04 05-09 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 & over Not Stated NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE 3675 4290 4253 3809 3705 2859 2458 1985 1583 1329 1154 1160 1183 3695 178 TOT AL 89 74 93 86 13 86 78 58 75 43 31 61 53 94 42 96 3-ll7 I 1 27 22 94 22 04 22 03 70 28 3 12 MALE 3784 4403 4360 4049 3838 3272 2936 2311 1734 1382 1140 1044 1020 3333 134 MALE 11.0 I I.'!
11.8 10.1 7.8 8.8 6.9 6.6 5.
I 3.6 2.8 2.2 2.6 7.5 1.4 ---PERCENTAGE' ------l FEMALeTO!ATl I I I 108 1~8 LO 9.0 7.0 8.8 7.6 5.8 4.3 4.1 2.8 3.1 3.7 9.4 lJ9 I I 10.9 114 II 9 9.6 7.4 8.8 72 6.2 47 3.9 2.8 27 3.1 8.5 11 llO_O_'O__ I i TOTAL 38740 37316 76 056 100.0 100.0 Table 2: Summary Table of 15 Years and Over Population by Employment State 1999 MALE FEMALE~BOTH ~ 25,980 24,958 SEXES 50,938 I I I Total Labour Force.-, 19,624 13,604 33,228 • Employed Unemployed First time Job Seekers Participation Rate Unemployment Rate 17,060 2,564 530 10,962 2,642 553 75.5% II 545% 13.1% 194% Total not in the Labour Force ~~ J__ L J 6,356 I 11,354 I 28,022 5,206 J,083 65.2% 17.710 _ Labour Force Sunev 1999 12 Table J: Non-In~tilutionaJ Population 15 Years and OH':r and Labour Force h~­ Emplo~'menl Status, Sex and Parish I l";.~ri.
~_seall Rest of 51.

Geor~e 51.

John/51.

Peter 51.

Joseph 51.

Paul 51.

Luke/51.

Mark S1.

Patrick SI.

David 51.

Andrew TOTAL Non- Institutional Population 15 Years and Over 5255 2352 1907 2310 2649 1271 3539 2818 3878 25,979 Roseau Rest ofSI.

George -¥J0hnlSI.

Peter SI.

Joseph SI.

Paul SI.

Luke/SI.

Mark SI.

Patrick SI.

David SI.

Andrew TOTAL Roseau Rest of 51.

George SI.

John/St.

Peler SI.

Joseph SI.

Paul SI.

Luke/SI.

Mark SI.

Patrick SI.

David SI.


Andrew TOTAL 5657 2192 2110 2213 2438 1701 3012 2233 3401 24,957 10910 4544 4017 4523 5087 2972 6551 5051 7279 50,934 - .

'-~'----_._--- --'-,---- -~_.

-,'-- - -- -.--- -_.

- • MALE Total Lahnur Force Partici- pation Rate Em- plo)'ed I Tlltal I Unemp- I lo)ed -0--1 ot In I hour orre iU;;::--r-N eml)lo~'- i La ment F Rate I -- -- ._~~--- - _ .
3687 \758 1462 1780 2\83 J()6 I 2501 2225 2%7 19,624 70.2 747 76.7 77.\ 82.4 835 70.7 79.0 76.5 75.5 \5) 572 1 - - - - - 27, .--12 b 11.6 169 - - In 71-..d_ '~-' - - -_ .

- - - ._ - _._- 139 318 : \28 Il.

J 305 763 100 ~.8 100 25M 3Ill- IJ81 1293 1653 1865 933 1738 2119 2861 17,060 ~ 13.1 - - J__.

FEMALE I 3299 11~8 942 1127 1537 942 lJ96 I 1)73 1741 13,605 .

- ~~} 2889 902 I 58.3 410 HI; 52.4 4f"i;----- 840 f------.
~·t- 102 I.I)-,-~--- P6 5U.9 164 369 63.0 24./ 326 307 55.4 53) 19.7 35.0 _,69 26.9 61.5 1~3-\--- S.2 5l.2 54.5 963 1\68 635 963 1004 /598 10,962 --f---- I --~.--.,.

1--- 2,()·,u 1--- 19.-1 - - - - TOTAL 600~ I--YK:>I-~-t 6986 2906 240~ 2907 3720 2001 3997-,- 3598 4708 33,229 640 M.O .. 59.~ 64.3 711 67.4 61.0 71.2 64.7 - 521 17.9 271 I--Ill 291 --.

!.0J!_________ 2385 2111 2616 ,033 687 __ 1568 415 j7~~f----i29!i ------~- -- JIB J75 H59 2~9 18.5 21.7 32.4 1.

)._ .

_.
)._ .

_.

-----+-.- 5.3 - - j - - - -.--t>.~_ _'____28,02~.L__5,207 L _I ,.2...... __ L. _.1 t-----~~"-1---~1-- - Labour Force Sur,e\' 1999 I '.'

Table 4: Non-Institutiunal PopulatiQD 15 Yl'ars and O,'cr and Labour }"orrc b~' Emvlovment Statu" Sex and Age GrouJl.

'"Ok' I,.,.,ro -'-T--r .-1 I Total I Dnem- I ployed .._----_._-_._---, :'iot in Labour Force patlOn Rate MALE I Un- emploJ- mcnt Rate I I I !

I 186i..~ I - !
I 186i..~ I - !

Non- Institutional Population 15 Years and Over 3793 2140 2861 2310 2691 2543 1695 \547 1547 1293 3560 25,980 , _.
2992 1967 2664 2459 2356 2008 1824 1619 1086 1291 4692 24,958 Total Labour Force 1919 1886 2649 2289 2416 2331 1589 1420 1.156 890 869 19,624 820 1537 1916 1865 1823 1598 1434 840 553 450 758 13,604 • Parisb 15-19 20-24 ~.9..-_ .10.34 35·39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-<54 65 & Over TOTAL 1 15-19 20-24 ~29 30 34 - 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 & Over TOTAL 15-19 20-24 25·29 30-34 ~9 40-44 45-49 50-54 '55-59 60-64 65 & Over TOTAL 50.9 881 926 99.\ 89.8 91.7 91.7 91.8 87.7 68.8 .. 24.4 75.5 27.-1 78.1 72.3 75.8 77.4 79.6 78.6 51.9 50.9 349 16.2 54.5 1081 1441 2289 2098 2\83 2181 1462 1314 1250 890 869 17,060 - - FEMALE ; I .
- I .. 9];- 4-1 0 23.6 1]6 848 445 _...2.~~ 8.]

t 160 212 I I 191 21 275 I 213 148 ----ni'-- 212-- I 127 106 106 106 () '~F '" 191 ~ ----21>91 1 _~ti..1 ---403 7 8 () () o 0 8.0 () 2~'\64 1J.1 400 .

~-- 2~~~"l 120 718 15.9 594 i 24.2 I (, 8 .~__ 5:'.1..1 410 ~ 166 20 5 "i() 492 <28 lO45 492 1619 307 1-114 451 1516 307 2(,6 1"2 1147 287 61 ~1 779' 53] j 779 '-'-- 430 --~ 22.2 Ie-.

--~.- - -_ .

- .

4A ____...Jl:!.l.. 2() 430 i58 I 3934 0.0 10,962 I 11,354 19.4 2,6H -~ .
- () - - TOTAL .. 2749 6785 40.5 4107 ~Jm 83.3 82.8 5525 86, 4769 5047 84.0 4550 86.3 85.9 3519 71.4 3166 72.5 2633 51.9 2584 8252 19.7 65.2 50,937 4575 4154 4239 3929 3023 22(,0 1909 1340 1627 33,228 1573 2486 390R 3512 3699 3515 2h09 2093 1680 1320 1627 28,022 1176 I 937 ~7 641 540 414 414 167 229 20 () -12.8 27.4 146 155 127 10.5 ."

13 7 74 -----u..-o-- 1.5 0.0 40]6 684 950 615 .. ~ RIl8 - ~~ 621-1 496 I '==::_'il)('.~ JED 1244._ (.
()2S ~ 17,709 J 5,206 _ 15.7_1 Labour Force Survey 1999 \4 Table 5: Employed Persons by Level of Education, ParticilJation Rate and Sex LEVEL OF EDUCATION • ~.,~J • 13 I Table 6: Distribution of Employed Persons by Occupation for which trained Occupation for which trained MALE FEMALE No Occupational Training Legislators, Senior Officials, Managers Professionals Technicians and Associate ~fessionals Clerks Service, Shop & Market Sales Workers ~killed Agri & Fishery Warkers Craft and Related Trades Workers Plant and Machine Operators & Assemblers Elementary Occupations I i TOTAL No.
8732 106 % 512 0.6 No.

6373 2-\6 3 I 7.3 2.0 5.1 4.3 22.5 2.0 19 3ill.. 1332 1004 717 102 512 41 287 - 530 1250 339 869 742 3835 • 339 ... 318 17,060 No.

15105 TOTALr- ~~-""l 3521· -.

2582 --_._--~- U-\J I 1586 % 58 I 2.2 - J2 122 ~4- 6) ~_i 3 Ii -~._.."1 '12 !
I -4XJ 5.6 I f- - 844 4347 0.9 4 7 - ~~-3wt I 6()S.L~_ 0.4 2.6 100.0 I I 0,962] ~ .J oo.il~r= i8:::~lL 1 Labour Force Sun'e" 1999 J5 Table 7: Distribution of Employed Persons by Status in Employment and SCI EMPLOYMENT STATUS -Public Sector Emplovee Private Sector Employee Employer O\\n Account Worker Unpaid Family Worker Other NOI Staled TOTAL I ..

MALE No..~ % 3094 6124 848 6633 233 21 J07 .~ --FEMALE .F-iOT,:\L~-'-: -'-~~'~~'j No.

L .. 5286 11124 --- 1135 9768 .

34J!.1 I 438 06_ ~_82 .
oj::..1 189 ~ .......I }7,060] 100.0 00,962 [ 1oo.tlI 28,0~~U00.0.._ No, 2192 5000 287 3135 205 61 82 181 359 5.0 38.9 1.4 0.1 06 % 20.0 45.6 2.6 2&6 19 39.7--J % 18.8 0.7 1.6 4.1 I - Table 8: Distribution of Employed Persons by Occupation and SCI OCCUPATION r Legislalors, Senior Officials, MaIJaI1.ers Professionals Technicians & Associate Professionals Clerks Service, Sbop & Market Sales I Workers Skilled Agriculture, Fishery, Forcstry _Craft & Related Trades Workers Plant & Machine Operators & Assembly Workers Elementary Occupations Not Stated MALE No.
784 424 1166 .108 1314 5488 3305 1356 2585 130 % 4.6 25 68 3.0 7.7 32.2 19A 7.9 15.2 0.7 FEMALH TOTC':A~L~-l %··1 I No.

1870 % 9.9 6.7 No.

!O86 I 327 1557 1516 1742 1352 799 82 - .

30 14.2 13.8 15.9 12.3 7.3 07 I I 751 2723 2024 3056 6840 I 4104 1438 f---~~ I 7.2 10.9 2.7 9.~ i I, i 24,4 I 14 7 1 _.
-1 I ) I 2397 104 f- 22.8 - 0.9 - 4982 § 234 08 _.. TOTAL - 117,060 1100.0 110,962 I !..00.0 :Jj8,oiz' II~oO,ll_~J Labour Force SUIVey 1999 Jr, Table 9: Distribution of Employed Persons by Industr"y and Sex - INDUSTRY Agriculture, Hunting and Forestry Fishing Manufacturing Electricity, Gas, and Watcr Supply Construction Wholesale and Retail trade.
etc Hotels and Restaurant Transport, Storage & Communications Financial Intermediation Real Estate, Renting and Busincss Activities Public Administration, Social Sccurity Education Health and Social Work Other Community, social & Personal Service Activities Private Households with Employed Persons Not Stated .

TOTAL .

MALE _._.__.

No.

5446 403 1335 2% 2098 1949 233 1356 233 1356 % 31.9 24 U 1.7 12.3 11.4 1.4 7.9 1.4 7.9 TOTAL FEMALE No.

17112 0 lOllS 102 0/0 -- c-c ~--- --.- ---- i (X) No.
-I - - - --------- - - - - 25.7 n08 IIl.1 J j 1.5 403 00 .

- - 9.7 2400 I ~ (\ I 14 09 398 I --_._-- !-.

.

_ - - ~-'2118 - I 71 ) I f--.---- 14.'

_ ..--- .. _-~- I - 20t 0.2 -" , j - - - - - 696 451 451 594 _ 4~~~ 1807 1184 19:'0 2\ 10 _I'll.

1l.3 4.1 4 I SA - " -1 114 -I 2A .

- f------ 7.0 727 t 26 12!i.....c._1eLl =l=~~_L3 I 17,060 I.

100.oL 10,962 :LJ()(I]]~02~:r...J.()0. "

· ·C ' - - - .
· ·C ' - - - .

- ._ - - ,... 4.7 ~8L 'i i 1---'- : 5.7 1597 9.2 825 I 2.9 60 _.. i ...- - - c - --9"2-1--j()1l8' 512 1004 655 410 975 593 170 317 5.7 35 1.0 19 -·~-;-X 1004 .1 OA 236 3.7 .

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.

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14 64 I • Labour Force Survey 1999 17 Table 10: Percentage Distribution of Employed Persons by Actual and 30-39 hours Labour Force Stm'CY 1999 lR Table 11: Distribution of Emplo~ed Persons Working Less Than 32 Hours per week h~' Reason for W ki or nl: s. Le Tb an REASON FOR WORKING LESS THAN 32 HOURS PER WEEK AVAILABLE FOR ADDITIONAL WORK Own IUness.

Maternity Disability I Holidav.

Vacation ~sonal.


Family Responsibilities - - - In School or Tmining , Did Not Want More Work full-time Work is less than 32 Hours Job Start-End Witlun Reference Period Reduction in Economic Activity Temp Disorganisation!-Suspen.

from Work Could NOI find More Work Other I Not Stated ~TALAVAJLABLE ours an va. a It" or 32 H 'd A ·1 bTl ~ Ad,!
"t· NUMBER Of PERSONS fEMALE TOTAL I MALE I fEMALE or L~__P~RCEI'>'!.t\GL_ rio1':\I:1 TOTA ~-I --~----..---- - - I W k Ilona I MALE - --- [ 0 0 IR - - ° -r 56 566 18 60 3~ 225 24 59 1,061 c-;:-~ 13 - ° 127 0 71 3lli 59 5~ 14 1--- o Dr=--Ol)~~-----I ~I-----~i) [ 00± __.flQ___ 0 -I ~ 01_.

:-1 1~' ~__I~1 __IO,6_f---_6 Ai ° -ill o , ,-~-,---- - - - - - - - - , 1'9 7 [ _____~-~-~- '"- .------: __ J 42 950 01 --I -------- f------- _ 4i ,l I ___J O!
I 1-------, ) 2 0,0 - , ::I,.J 51.3 (UI (, I 3l.Y 114 48 45 12 5.7 3.2 1.7 77 ~,') 1------ 460 0 17 1,202 6R5 2~ 76 2,263 I - I 21.2 2.~ 5.6 , - - - - - ~ _'------__\8 3 ____,10 -II 00 I 4 1 1.4 3 ----- --------:...---1 wo- - .u' }(IO.
(j- IOO:!,-~_ r.-c='7----c=-=-=-=----~-------- NOT AVAILABLE FOR MORE WORK 283 36 216 56 [ 332 6~2 36 72 18 128 24 41 1.&84 303 9~ 578 32 188 1,20R - - - 0 • 55 17 155 78 ]6 2,744 TOTAL PERSONS _~-L-~~~ 2,945 L 3.946] I 32 hours work per week is the dividiog line between full-time and part-time emplo\'menl in DOlOlluca Labour Force SurveY 1999 I 'J Table 12 Distribution of MuUiple-job Holders by Main and Secondary Status in Emplo,'ment NUMBER OF PERSONS b PERCENTAGE"--' --~ MALE I FEMAill TOTAL~.Ji:,JJ'EMALUTOTAL'I 4~2::c0_~ I'll "'11J]-- '22-.j -\ - - l _ 610 _-j-__ ' I EMPLOYMENT STATUS l l'" rMAIN JOB L.OcIPiibPu=b:cIi:cc"CScC'ec:.:cto=r",E;cm::.c.:;]lllo=y,eeO-__+-_~2977:e-t_,_",1.
:;c2",1-j- ~p=riv=a:;:te=Sec=to=r",E=m::!nPc::llo::,y:.

::e=e__~__4,",6c;6-+__,.1=674-I-- ~EC'm=pllo",y.::er':--c:-;=.-c- Own Account Worker Unpaid Family Worker Other rJ,oTAL --+__cl;-;O:;--6 I-- _ 615 0 21 1,505 0 82 0 () J69 106 697 () 21 1,874 --_ 4H ---:., 11 I>.

j 5 7 I 11 0 7 () 37 2 40.9 , 00 T 00'--1 IA I ----iTl IOO,O_l__~,{) .

-__-.illiJ:tq I () () 223 OJ) 0,0 SECONDARY JOB Public Sector Employee ~Pn=\='ll:;:tc=Sec=to=r",E=m::lnp::.
:llo::,yc::ee=-__+-__4:--:6",6-+,_ ,__.1-,4",3~__,6",0:::)9-,:--+-_--,-3=Lcc0-+-_--,]:.::8.:.

:,9--+_ ""'E=m=pllo=ve1T':---==c--c--____ " ,,_~64~--_=:c'0:-+-__~6,:4___i----=:'4"',3_+ Own Account Worker':--__-t__S,,4;-:S--+__.::2:::2;;.5+_.-:.

::.10'C7;-;3~t---__'='"",'''=;-'+ __ .

:.6:.

;;1-;;1 UnpaidFamil)'Worker 0,0 Other 00 f--=-= - _ ---,,,,8,,,5~_'_-_'_~c:5:c:,6_+1 --'-_---="'--'__--C---'-__"'-'---'-__C ' .

- .L - - _ 14 14 21 21 =:(c:c:)(J_ _ 21 21 c-'.:.


:)'.=() 0 () 85 0 4,5 32.5 ,4 ,__ ,_'7_,4__ ,4- I.l I • Labour Force Survey 1999 20 I 42 : - - - -PERCENTAGE :'\lUMBER OF PERSONS Table 13 Distribution of Multiple-job Holders by Main and Seconda.r:LQc~llli<ln~__~ OCCUPATION i MALE I FEMALEI TOTAL I.

MALE]_I'EM~~~_IL()I~~J -'()- ~-- '42-r--'2Ii-;- .-, oil -1'- -'22' ---+----~-; '4 -f. __4.5.-1 78; 16.6 i MAIN OCCUPATION Legislators, Senior Officials.

c-M3Jl=;coag;;ctc:;.r.


:.s---;-~~~~~--+~~ -t-~~~c~+--~----c~+---_--;-;,-I 4 3 64 Professionals Te<;hnicians&Associate 57 85 Professionals Clerks Service, Shop & Market Sales Workers ~~~~~~Agricu1tu-re-,-=F"'is7h-ef)~',-+-~-6cc5"'7+-~~-'4-:-1~' Craft &~R'--e;-la-te-;d-=T;;-r-ad7es-~~--t-~-;;2-=54-;--t~- ~:~~sMaChineopcrators f-~""l;-':cc~:.:.;-:~~bl-'-Yo:;:W-cc-:-~-:t:.
:.r~-n-s-- 1-~-;2"'3:-;;3-+------;1-;4-=3~+--~'-;3"':;-::--!i~ I 62 -+~---C1c:.06-'-·+----- 41-T--'147 2~(-:-)---1~-:=2:=747,-Ie-- 0 ~ I-~- I' J7~l 112 :i 4~~--i4JI-1 ~ ---,--~ ,:: -,~;I 20 ,_.

61 84 146 43.7 16'1 6'18 42 2\ 4\ I I f-T=O-=T:-7A-=L---- -~-f---71,-::5704-:-,+-----:3:c6"'7-+---1 ,871 _ -'---_---'-"-'---'-_--'.2-'-'-'--'-----'-'-.C'-'--' SECONDARY OCCUPATION Legislators, Senior Officials, Manag,ers ProfessIOnals I' i (,2 I ~~~~~~I:';;'-' A-;-Ss-OC-i~a-te~~f---~--::"':+---~-:C::2~ -~.
~: i~ 20 42 85 n. 100.0 - I00,01 __-------j -.-~----------..------.

----I 100.0 0I ",' .. ,..6[-- (.1"')-'-j--'--4· ..,.I"'1 _ _ I 2.8 54 ~:: I-~~~ I JJ I' 1-~ ~_-:-;-j 41 l~ 8:" I02~45 39 41 &Sf 398 I 5.6 143 0 I 110---9.01 278 __t_ 3~j ----0:0-1--4'"5; 169 C 390_I::::::1J..'J I 1"1 , I ...

I I" I .L 127 Servicc,Shop&Market Craft & Related Trades ~i;:::::.::~::-:£+-:~:-~k-c:_~~_I-:-tu=re_'-:l'_'lS_b_e_I)_"-+-~-:5"",,93.
~~:~~s Machine Operators ~~;::~vo~:u~~~~ns e===-"'--=-==="'--_l-..- 255 212 85 I TOTAL .l 1,5051= 367 1,872 I 100,0=:Ioo,o'-I__~llJO~(jJ ..:;L~ab",o..:;ur;.;F;.;o..:;rc;.:e..;;S..;;un:.;.·...c,;.;·1:.;.9..

:;99 ~ 21 Table 14 Distribution ofEmp oyed Persons by Monthly Income and Sex MONTHLY ~~~o~:L:COME MALE FEMALE ._ - TOTAL'-"I ~!~~ii_:~;~_~~;-=~;;Ij:'_~ 1863 $300-$499 175 $500-$799 f-==:=~~-----t__---:~_=__+__7:::_:_:_-_+_-~'.
:._::__+-'_:"_-:c-f---=:c:--t--------:c-=c- $800-$999 120 $1000-$1299 I $1300-$1499 /$1500-$1799 $1800-$1999 $2000-$2499 \-$2500-$2999 $3000-$3999 $4000 & Over Not Stated 2356 16.8 1762 18.4 1086 134 1167 12.8 52 .,f---~I_f--_..4_.I-, _,_I3~i.

f-_4~_.
f-_4~_.

,,~ _..19 --f--, 103,'- 4.7 2.6 286 U 1545 6.0 655 5.2 (,27 2.2 246 2.2 2.4 266 4.0 944 07 82 1.9 400 ' - - - ' 475 4.0 4 3_~,_1J..:'l..~_,4_1_,_ 2861 3136 2289 2183 890 805 657 890 381 678 318 678 I __943,----...3.c±__ 21.5 161 10.0 10.6 --'3SQ,f----'2~_, 5.5 2.2 3.4 14 S~l2.... 4898 337S 4A Table 15 Number or Employees ofScH-Employed Persons Who Have elvan P'dHI dS ex al ~:--.

MALE FEMALE NO.

42 466 148 191 0/.

5.0 S5.0 17.5 225 No.


61 '---- 14] 20 61 ,- % 21.4 50.2 7.0 214 10] 609 168 252 .. TOTAL =1 _No.

__ .

~__j i 847 I 100.0I 285 C)oo.o:J. I u[] 9 I 5H 14.X 223 -I I J 100.0 j NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES +-4 5-9 ,-'0 & Over TOTAL Labour Force Survey 1999 Table 16: Distribution of Employed Persons by Relationship to Head of Household and Sex NUMBER OF PERSONS -~ FEMALE , TOTAL I 3934 ------.---1 I 14254 4742 I 5862 673 94l 1507 42 28,021 3873 2090 164 34& 511 42 10,962 I I c= PERCEt\TA¥=-~~ MAL;.
"-f'VEM"~~E I T~TA.L 359 I 352 19 ~ I ) II 4.7 Oe!
221 3.0 3.5 5.8 509 1fJ.9 2~ 9 ~.4 3.4 54 0 I flO.5 51 I 100.0 100.0~00~J RELA TlONSHlP TO HEAD Head Spouse Unmarried ChJld Grandchild Sibling/in-law Other Not Stated TOTAL I MALE 10320 869 3772 509 593 996 - 17,059 _. r--_;~Table 17: Unemployed Persons by Level of Education, lJnemp Dyment Rate and Sex NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE LEVEL OF EDUCATION None Nursery/Preschool PnmaryfJSP Secondary TechnicallVocational Community College MALE 85 - -~~-1886 424 42 106 &2 - 1803 574 123 61 TOTAL 167 - 3fJ89 998 165 1117 .
fNEMPLOYMENT RATE("MJ MALE FEMALE tTOTIAO,-~JI !lJ.J_ 177 l 14 'J ~ --14-:4 I IO~O I " 8~5,- __154_ o.

0 ~~ -.<J,~~_.

2~7 1421 1)7 14.0 17.6 94 88 10.9 7 I- 2'5:~ _.

2'64~1 5'2:~ ~=;~ __=1;.~-0 _~_-~.~-I - • ;:::~ty Labour Force Surve\' 1999 Table 18: Unemoloved Persoos by Relationship to Head of Household and Se, ~RELATlONSIDP ~_ TO HEAD Head ~:':~ied Ch,ld Grandchild E;~~S~::::~-I" NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE 574 MALE 657 TOTAL ~I\.

!AL~_ 10.6 UNEMPLOYMENT RAn: ~o;;.

)~' F~I\.


!ALJ:: I_I2!~Lj 1 I 1231 137 19.8 ... - 12~~:- -~- .. ;;T~-~~r~--~t.

-~iH=j I 63j--'--521-1 442 127 164 291 - ::: ,::-- -1_~I::d-:;::L:: I L .

.

'T::...O::...T::...A~L=--__~L2,@ 2,642 , 5,206 L. _ I3.I_L_12~ L__ !.5:2..J I 'b .

T bla e 19: DlStn utlOn 0 STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT ru n..molove dP MALE er~ons by tatus in Employment in last job and TOTAL S Se, FEMALE - f I NO.

% NO.
% NO.

0 Public Sector Employees Private Sector Employees Emplover <A.n Account Worker Unpaid Family Workcr Nevcr Worked TOTAL NO.

I I % 212 1504 21 J91 - 636 .

- 1)0 780 Ll 99 - 24.8.

458 246 1446- - 12.8 n 71' .

3001:)- ----J.~---.

:-21_==_- t1~-- ;H-~341~~ 2 717 l..271 1353 I 2,564 ~- -i-IillJlOi--C- ~-- _100'11_ _ 5,~(J2.-..___ I - 2,643 IOO.
() I ru i : lstnbuhon 0 T bl 20 D' a e TIME WITHOUT WORK Less than one month From I month to 3 months From 4 months to 6 months From 7 months to II months Twelvc months or more Never Worked NO.

127 297 445 381 678 636 .

- nemp oye dP MALE ersons b Leneth 0 T,me FEMALE % NO.

% r' W'h W It out ork and ce TOTAL ,..----- .

65 15.4 231 19.8 35.2 I 24T1 61 348 143 307 1065 717 3.2 181 7.4 160 553 27 1 s ,..,j 0;' 6.7 I -,;; l I ~ 7 l) J I 452j' 60 2 NO.

188 645_ 588 688 174"--.,__ 1353 ~-~.

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_-~ Labour Force SlII,'ev 1999 Table 21: Distribution of Unemployed Persons by Occupation of OCCUPATION MALE LE I ast mplOyment an ex d S __ Technicians & Associate h~ 1--- Legislators, Senior Officials, Managers Professionals Professionals Clerks Service, Shop & Market Sales Workers Skilled Agricultural & Fishery Workers Craft & Related Trades Workers Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers , Elementary Occupations Not Staled Never Worked TOTAL NO.
21 % f-------- I I ,--_N ------c----- I.l 21 - r--- 1_1±- .------j---~ f----- II.

0 L _ 64 487 85 975 42 631i 2,564 33 25.2 4.4 50.6 2.2 24.8 100.0 f- - .

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2 Table 22: Distribution of Unemployed Persons by Industry of L tE I t as mploymen an MALE dS ex INDUSTRY NO.

N Agriculture, Hunting and Forest'" Fishing Manufacturing EIeCtnCltv, Gas, and Water Supplv Construction Wholesale and Retail trade, ctc.
Hotels and Restaurant Transport, Storage & Conununications Financial Intermediation Real Estate, Renting and Busmess ActIvities ~l1c Administration, Social Security Education Health and Social Work Other Community.
social & Personal Service Activities I Private Households with Employed % 13.2 - 11.0 IL - 40.7 7.7 2'4 - 212 21 784 148 127 1--- 6~6... f---------W6 - 170 21 - - 21 I 5.5 - 88 I -L L~ 1_ -+- -r- ,- I.l Persons Not Stated - - - - - - - - - - - r - - --- li4 - _____ 1.._ 3 3 ..::L::;;ab..::ou::;;r..:,F.;;::or..::ce::..:S;:::lm::..:.::.'e\:...'1~9.
;;,;99;"".- " Tbl23Y h· hLb out IR t e F a our orce Jy b S· a e : IRl(le I Y ears 0 fA ge an dS ex NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE TOTAL 3,814 2,356 I 6,170 I 64.3 =47.5 L -=-56C-,§C-._-J I AGE MALE 106 360 360 593 509 381 445 361 424 275 AGE MALE 85 191 148 212 212 106 170 64 64 42 PARTICIPATION RAT 1., E OTAL I --~r~-~ ~-F~I TOTAL L .
MALE 13.5 447 51.5 68.3 80.0 856 87.4 74.1 1000 1000 167 442 442 777 919 606 711 546 916 644 ._- FEMA~~ _T 9.0 __ --_.- 13.3 --- - 13~_ 33.3 74 I 6LI 56.5 82.2 _.._- - - - - - - - - 100.0 100 .
~--- - - -- - 773 - - - - - - - 745- - -1HL94.0 __ I 1 I TOTAL 105 211 209 335 314 208 211 166 228 124 - - - - - - - ._-~----- dS ex fA ge an ears 0 UNEMPLOYMENTRATE(o/~ MALE 80.2 53.1 41.1 358 41.7 27.8 38.2 17.7 15.1 15.3 FEMALE 32.8 24.4 74.4 66.8 24.9 45.3 15.4 55.1 33.3 222-----.1 TOTAL 62.9 47.7 47.3 -1 43 1 ~ 34 2--.j j 34.3 29.7 30.4 24.9 19.3 r-- 34.~ - -----~- --------- .-1--.
- - - - ---~-.-_._--- I 61 82 82 184 410 225 266 185 492 369 20 20 61 123 102 102 41 102 164 82 817 T bl 24 U a e : d Y nemploye h b S· Jy NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE out IR21e I Y TOTAL 1,294 2,111~ 33.9 [ 34.8 Labour Force Survev 1999 Table 25: Distribution or 15-24 year-old Youth Not in Labour Force by Reason ror Unavailability and Sex REASON FOR NUMBER OF PERSONS - UNAVAILABILITY MALE 1780 At SchooVEduc Institution Engaged in Household IlInessfDisabilitv .

Other 64 148 127 ~- IX86 FEMALE _~!().


!~1 3666 r----S97 189 -_ ._ - 270 533 41 143 84 () -+::.

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!Ai: - J I -~}~_.-·__2_~r-f:~_~T1~' 77.7 72.5 I i TOTAL I 2,119] .

2,603 L4,722 Table 26' Persons Not in the Labour "'orce by Parish and Sex - .

I PARISH Roseau Rest of St. George St. John/St.

Peter St. Joseph St. Paul ~Luke/St Mark St. Patrick St. David St Andrew r _.

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- I - -_. I--~'--'---':-::"'- , I -T- -+.- I 3924 [----1638 1613 1616 l~~~ PERCENTAGE FEMALF.

20.7 9 1 \0.3 - --------j-- 9.6 TOTAL ~ MALE 24.7 94 7.0 8.3 NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE 2356 1044 1168 .__+~I__.

{~__ 1086 901 759 -.

I ___1- ____ ._~-------- __ ___-'6.4 L __I.3-c"-_L 1516 9H-___?c6_.L 860 1660 - 17,705 T--IOO·IT.IiJo:o=r MALE 1568 594 445 530 466 210 1038 593 911 6;ill] 11.530 _I 2554 1453 2571 -- r- -- _I4J , [4.6 , I - ~ .

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-------1 -- 1=-9-.1-'.. 77 : ---_._, ----, 5 5 i 14.4 i --821-T4~J I i --too:l[j • • Labour Force Survey 1999 27 ,--- T_a_b_le_27: Persons Not in the Labour Force by Age Group and Sex c-==- AGE GROUP I NUMBER Q}' PERSONS MALE 1 FEMALE 2172 430 __ 738 594 533 410 389 779 533 1865 254 212 21 275 212 106 127 I'll 403 2691 3934 ~ f--- T 22.8 PERCENTAGE MAL~ 'EMA1L ~()TAL_ TOTAL 19.1 4036 2'13 __ J8 684 __.4Jl 6.5 34 950 615 ~ 5.2 4.7 4.3 808 3.6 3.4 621 -_ .._- ,--------- 495 -:it " 2."

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:J_---' 6,357 [ 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65 & over TOTAL Table 28: Persons Not in the Labour Force by Level of Education and SCI LEVEL OF EDUCATION None NurserylPreschool Primary/ISP Secondary Technical!
Vocational Community College University Not Stated NUMBER OF PERSONS ;=t=- MALE I FEMALE 615 - 3983 1314 85 148 127 84 1086 41 7683 2090 102 246 82 20 TOTAL 170l 41 11666 3404 187 PERCENTAGE MALE 9.7 00 62.7 20.7 1.3 FEMALE I TOTAL 9.6 0.2 65.9 19.2 I I 9.6 04 67.7 184 0.9 394 209 104 2.3 20 1.3 2.2 0.7 0.2 2.2 ._ -_.. 1.2 0.6 I TOTAL I 6,356 11,350 • , I 17,706 , I 100.0 I 100.0 T .---L 100.0 Labour Force Survey 1999 Table 29: Persons Not in the Labour Force by Reason of Unavailabilitv for Work and Sex -~---~- NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE MALE TOTAL MALE PERCENT FEMAL ~TGF.l'OTA~L~l.
REASON FOR UNA VAILABILITY At SchoollEduc.

lnstitution Engaged in Household Retired/Old Age IIlnesslDisability Other Not Stated 1801 297 2204 1695 275 83 1926 3873 3299 1947 287 20 3727 28.3 170 ----~- ~-•.

- I --+- -- -~---" lIO I. J 23 6 i _ ._ - HI 29.1 _ .• - 17.2 2.5 0.2 _.~~-----j I I 3 II --20-(,-1 __2.2-.j .

0.5 -~._--~--~ , 26.7 4.4 1.2 - - - - -_ .

4 I io ' - - - o 5503t= 34~ 3642 I 562 103 .
TOTAL 6,355 I 11,352 17,707 100.OJ 100.0 Table 30; Persons Not in the Labour Force by Main Means of F' Inanc) 'a1S upporl an dS ex MAIN MEANS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT Self SoouselPartner Money From Abroad Savinl!.s/lnvestment FriendslRelatives Social Securitv Other Not Stated TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS FEMALE TOTAL MALE PERCENTAGE MALE I FEMALE T 487 403 170 1123 3560 466 64 82 410 3094 451 799 5942 533 102 20 897 3497 +-- 621 1922 <)502 999 166 102 7.7 63 2.7 l~ Sh.O '73 1.0 13 3.6 273 40 _._~_.._- 70 -_... .52,3 47 O.Y 0.2 .,-_._._~- -.--- - - , - - - - -_.- - - - - - - ~-.. _-- -~---- 6,355 11,351 • 17,706 J 1OO.lil 100-,-0_....l • _ .
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