Akwa Ibom, Rivers top states with high unemployment rate in 2018 third quarter – NBS

April 26, 2019

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Akwa Ibom State reported the highest unemployment rate of 37.7 per cent in third quarter 2018.

NBS said this in its Labour Force Statistics – Volume 2: Unemployment and Underemployment by State for Third Quarter, 2018 posted on its website.

The bureau said Rivers was the second highest reported unemployment rate with 36.4 per cent followed by Bayelsa with 32.6 per cent.

Also, Abia recorded 31.6 per cent and Borno reported 31.4 per cent unemployment rate in the quarter under review.

The report said the top five states with the highest unemployed population were Rivers (1,673,991), Akwa Ibom (1,357,754), Kano (1,257,130), Lagos (1,088,352) and Kaduna with (940,480).



It said among these five states with the highest unemployed population, Lagos state reported the lowest rate of 14.6 per cent during the quarter.

Meanwhile, the bureau said Katsina State, Jigawa, Kaduna State and Yobe recorded the highest underemployment rates of 39.5, 38.1, 31.0 and 30.0 per cent.

It said the national unemployment rate for the quarter was 23.1 per cent while the underemployment rate was 20.1 per cent.

The report said between third quarter, 2017 and third quarter of 2018, only nine states recorded a reduction in their unemployment rates despite an increase in the national unemployment rate.

The states included: Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna, Kogi, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ondo and Rivers; the same states recorded reduction in their combined unemployment and underemployment rates.



The report said six states recorded the highest gains in net full time employment between third quarter, 2017 and second quarter, 2018.

The states were Lagos adding 740,146 net full time jobs, Rivers (235,438), Imo (197,147), Ondo (142,514), Enugu (122,333), Kaduna with 118,929 jobs.

The report presents the state breakdown of the results of the Labour Force Survey earlier published by NBS.

According to NBS, unemployment and underemployment rates vary across states due to the nature of economic activity predominant in each State.

States with higher focus on seasonal agriculture tend to have higher rates of underemployment compared to unemployment.

This may swing from high full-time employment during periods of planting and harvest, when they are fully engaged on their farms to periods of high underemployment and even unemployment at other periods in between.

Meanwhile, states with a higher propensity for women to be housewives or stay home husbands or that have negative attitudes to working tend to have lower unemployment rates.

The women tend to have lower unemployment rate as they are not considered part of the labour force in the first place and as such have no bearing on the rate of unemployment.

On the methodology for arriving at the figures, the bureau said the total population in Nigeria was divided into labour force (currently active) and non-labour force (not currently active).

The labour force population covers all persons aged 15 years to 64 years who are willing and able to work regardless of whether they have a job or not.

The definition of unemployment, therefore, covers persons (aged 15–64 years) who during the reference period were currently available for work, actively seeking for work but were without work.

The non-labour force includes population below 15 years or older than 64 years as well as those within the economically active population.

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States with more population and less revenue allocation are not having high unemployment rate as Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Delta states.

Again, where is the money?

Why is Lagos among the top 5 Most unemployed states?? I thought some people go to Lagos to find greener pastures. At least according to Nollywood

Meanwhile, states with a higher propensity for women to be housewives or stay home husbands or that have negative attitudes to working tend to have lower unemployment rates.

The women tend to have lower unemployment rate as they are not considered part of the labour force in the first place and as such have no bearing on the rate of unemployment.

So you calculate all the Southern women and men as willing to work while adding it to unemployment but consciously remove those in the North still on same age category 15 - 64, but tag them unwilling to work, negative attitude to work, and so not in the bracket of unemployment....

WHO IS DECEIVING WHO? How does a statistics of a nation even categorize people between 16 - 64 as unwilling to work without deformity and glorify it?

Is anybody really willing to work? We could aswell fold our hands and get tagged "unwilling to work" to reduce unemployment...

First quater of 2019 had gone,NBS is still talking of third quater 2018.,may God punish backwardness in our life..

amaniro:
Why is Lagos among the top 5 Most unemployed states?? I thought some people go to Lagos to find greener pastures. At least according to Nollywood

The unemployment rate is actually quite low at 14%,

But the total number of unemployed is on the high side comparatively,because of the huge population of Lagos..

Unemployment is a time bomb in Naija

amaniro:
Why is Lagos among the top 5 Most unemployed states?? I thought some people go to Lagos to find greener pastures. At least according to Nollywood

because every Akpan , Ekaete, Chike, Ifeoma and Wilberforce are trooping into Lagos on a daily basis because their state governments have failed them.

amaniro:
Why is Lagos among the top 5 Most unemployed states?? I thought some people go to Lagos to find greener pastures. At least according to Nollywood

You are from Abia State and ur state has the third highest state of unemployment. You ran away from Abia cos of poverty and joblessness and you're now talking nonsense about Lagos.

Lastma officers in 5 local governments in Lagos are more than the entire Abia State civil service and you're talking nonsense.

They would soon pursue you from that Abuja where you're hiding back to Abia.

Even with all the allocations. Where are the industries and agriculture that are supposed tackle the unemployment problem. #whereisthemoney?

RichDad1:

because every Akpan , Ekaete, Chike, Ifeoma , Wilberforce are trooping into Lagos on a daily basis because their state governments have failed them.

The person you're quoting is from Abia but he's a refugee in Abuja.

When hunger wan kill am, e run comot

Wike is working.

Esseite:


So you calculate all the Southern women and men as willing to work while adding it to unemployment but consciously remove those in the North still on same age category 15 - 64, but tag them unwilling to work and so not in the bracket of unemployment....

WHO IS DECEIVING WHO? How does a statistics of a nation even categorize people between 16 - 64 as unwilling to work and glorify it?


NIGERIA HAS A VERY BIG PROBLEM

You need to educate yourself properly. Throughout the world, unwilling to work is entirely different from those willing to work but can't find jobs.

Chimaokigwe:


The person you're quoting is from Abia but he's a refugee in Abuja.

When hunger wan kill am, e run comot

wicked

Akwa Ibom matter hmmm


Politician just turn the state to a political/ civil service state


No industries. Just PDP and APC noise
Rest na keke and civil service

With that money thousands of lives can be changed every month

But it ends up with capital flight

I don't even know the essence of having mod anymore when some guys just dey spam all the thread wey make front page...The question is what's the usefulness of this so called mods?

And one senseless actress keeps shouting there’s no money in circulation. Why is she not facing the state governors of these states? They receive the highest allocations in the country. What do they do with it?



How will the money circulate when you have those amount of jobless people depending on the few with jobs. What are the state governments doing?

SillyMods:

You need to educate yourself properly. Throughout the world, unwilling to work is entirely different from those willing to work but can't find jobs.

- So who is willing to work?
- Is anybody really willing to work?
In essence, the South is more willing to work while the north is not?

You really need that education you recommended.

But many Rivers state youth engaging in kidnapping.

dejonathan:
I don't even know the essence of having mod anymore when some guys just dey spam all the thread wey make front page...The questions what's the use fuel of this so called mods?

The mods are overwhelmed.

I don't blame the mods though, what plan does Sevn have to make Nairaland improve?

maybachmusic:
Akwa Ibom matter hmmm

Politician just turn the state to a political state

No industries. Just PDP and APC noise

Rest na keke and civil service

Bet9ja is the largest employer of labour in Akwa Ibom state.
Those ones there are just wasting away.

I doubt if the government has any plan for the youth. Only political clowns like TonyeBarcanista are there.