Unemployment and Underemployment by State
The analysis below presents the baseline for labor force indicators at the State level following a review of
methodology by the National Burau of Statistics in 2014. Accordingly, it is not comparable to earlier labor
force estimates which used different methodologies for computation. It Is also important to be cautious
in comparing performance in tackling unemployment and underemployment rates across States due to
the influence of migration. This means a higher unemployment rate in a State is not necessarily reflective of poor performance by the State. In certain cases, a State might experience an increase in its unemployment rate because it is a performing State which leads to people moving from economically or security challenging States to that State in search of a better living. In this case that State unemployment rate is high and rising because it's very good performance is attracting more unemployed and poor people which would lead to an increase in its unemployment and poverty rates.

At the same time a low unemployment rate does not necessarily equate to a sign of improving conditions in that State as a poor performing State can reduce its unemployment rate simply because unemployed persons who can't find work in the State leavimg for another State in search for jobs and a better life. When the situation described above happens,the number of unemployed who have left that State which was doing badly will reduce the size of the labor force population, resulting in a seemingly better-looking unemployment rate. At the same time, it is possible that better unemployment rates of a state might be a sign of better performance by that State just as a State with poorer looking unemployment rates may be a sign of
poor performance by the State.

Accordingly, cross state comparisons to indicate performance should be treated cautiously.


Unemployment and underemployment rates vary by state in Nigeria. Labor force population is more
concentrated in the south and southwest parts of the country, as well as in Kaduna and Kano states in the
Northern part of the country.

According to the 2017 Labor Force Survey conducted by NBS, Nigeria has an 85.09 million labor force nationwide, among which Lagos, Rivers, Oyo, Kano and Akwa-Ibom constitute 26.27% of the total labor force. The map below shows the labor force distribution in different states among Nigeria. Unemployment and Underemployment rates vary according the nature of economic activity predominant in the State.

Unemployment tends to be higher in the Southern States while underemployment tends to be higher in the Northern States where majority of the workforce is involved in seasonal agricultural activities. States with higher focus on seasonal agriculture tend to have higher rates of underemployment compared to unemployment and may swing from high fulltime employment during periods of planting and harvest when they are fully engaged on their farms to periods on underemployment at other periods.

States with higher propensity of women to marry early or be housewives and hence not part of the labor force also tend to have lower unemployment rates. These States tend to have higher proportion of their economically active populations outside the labor force thereby reducing the number looking for work and hence the number that can be unemployed.

Blue3k:


Actually Akwa Ibom doesn't have worst figures. Rivers has higher unemployment rates. What I think going wrong is the state isn't doing enough to drive attract businesses to state. The state growing at higher rate than jobs are being created.

Rmxr:
the same people that will come rubbish the stat are the ones loittering the whole SW selling Gala and Fanmilk.

Instead of them to just admit their region has nothing to offer anyone, pride won't allow them receive sense

Omofunaab2:


Lol

UN, Oxford, Financial Derivatives and NBS everything na propaganda... IPOB BUREAU OF STATISTICS na dat one be original

Omofunaab2:
Lol, I always pity potor whenever stats like these are released... You can sense from their bitter reactions from this thread already that they hate anything called official stats from Nigeria Bureau of statistics

If there's anything potor hates most , it's stats released by NBS, they detest well-researched stats whenever they see one. Everybody knows the only agency saddled with the responsibility of releasing statistical figures is the NBS but these condemned and cursed pigs of biafla prefer stats from IPOB Bureau of statistics, ohanaeze ndifools and uncle shike stats.. Lol

Their own stats usually comes in this fashion

"igbos owns 90% of the mansions in Lagos "

" igbos constitutes more than 60% of the entire population of Lagos state "

" Igbos have more than 90 trillion investments in borno "

" my uncle shike has ten mansions in Lagos "


Instead of these idiots to be more concerned about the poverty and unemployment rate of their miserable and Godforsaken States, it's aregbesola and tinubu matter dem carry for head..


Anyway pigs will always be pigs Sha

Omofunaab2:
Lol, I always pity potor whenever stats like these are released... You can sense from their bitter reactions from this thread already that they hate anything called official stats from Nigeria Bureau of statistics

If there's anything potor hates most , it's stats released by NBS, they detest well-researched stats whenever they see one. Everybody knows the only agency saddled with the responsibility of releasing statistical figures is the NBS but these condemned and cursed pigs of biafla prefer stats from IPOB Bureau of statistics, ohanaeze ndifools and uncle shike stats.. Lol

Their own stats usually comes in this fashion

"igbos owns 90% of the mansions in Lagos "

" igbos constitutes more than 60% of the entire population of Lagos state "

" Igbos have more than 90 trillion investments in borno "

" my uncle shike has ten mansions in Lagos "


Instead of these idiots to be more concerned about the poverty and unemployment rate of their miserable and Godforsaken States, it's aregbesola and tinubu matter dem carry for head..


Anyway pigs will always be pigs Sha

In Q3 2017, 16.4% of rural and 23.4% of urban dwellers within the labor force were unemployed and unemployment is increasing at a slightly faster rate for urban dwellers than it is for their rural
counterparts.

Underemployment is predominant in the rural areas (26.9% of rural residents within the labor force in Q3 2017), are underemployed (engaged in work for less than 20 hours a week); compared
to 9% of urban residents within the same period.

Unemployment tends to be higher for people within the labor force that have post-secondary
school qualifications (31.8% unemployment rate and 50.0% combined unemployment and
underemployment in Q3 2017). Graduates tend to prefer fewer in supply white collar jobs rather
than often rural, seasonal and low skilled and lower paying blue-collar jobs that are more in
supply.

Unemployment and Underemployment rates vary according the nature of economic activity
predominant in the State. States with higher focus on seasonal agriculture tend to have higher
rates of underemployment compared to unemployment and may swing from high fulltime
employment during periods of planting and harvest when they are fully engaged on their farms to
periods of underemployment and even unemployment at other periods in between.

ba7man:
Lots of South easterners are traders so that classifies as "self employed".

It's better you start a business or trade in the South East, rather than looking for a job.

Omofunaab2:
Lol, I always pity potor whenever stats like these are released... You can sense from their bitter reactions from this thread already that they hate anything called official stats from Nigeria Bureau of statistics

If there's anything potor hates most , it's stats released by NBS, they detest well-researched stats whenever they see one. Everybody knows the only agency saddled with the responsibility of releasing statistical figures is the NBS but these condemned and cursed pigs of biafla prefer stats from IPOB Bureau of statistics, ohanaeze ndifools and uncle shike stats.. Lol

Their own stats usually comes in this fashion

"igbos owns 90% of the mansions in Lagos "

" igbos constitutes more than 60% of the entire population of Lagos state "

" Igbos have more than 90 trillion investments in borno "

" my uncle shike has ten mansions in Lagos "


Instead of these idiots to be more concerned about the poverty and unemployment rate of their miserable and Godforsaken States, it's aregbesola and tinubu matter dem carry for head..


Anyway pigs will always be pigs Sha

temptnow:
neither is it our fault that Southwest government failed you too

bounty007:
source :

Nigeria state government..under BUHARI /APC

please tell us another story...

Osun Ogun oyo..why won't they be employed..
is skull mining not a Job?

please visit this so called Employment state and see poverty first hand.. grounded with yahoo plus gees.

from ife..ikire owo,ibadan,ede,Offa, etc...

ust wondering wia dey Bleep.. APC pull this from..

you can see Afonjas pigs and piglet wankin intensively on thread..

Abeg wia the industries and the employment dey..

APC n' lies...

always love massaging their slaves ego as a means of keeping them loyal.

buhari's did that on independent day speech and this more likely the APC trend til election..

trying to lock southwest votes...but after much mucn..

normal normal.. SW votes go still be shared..

they don't give block votes..
guess all this ego massage and propaganda is as useless as the president n' presidency.

Rmxr:
the same people that will come rubbish the stat are the ones loittering the whole SW selling Gala and Fanmilk because they can't find jobs in their unprductive states

Instead of them to just admit their region has nothing to offer anyone, pride won't allow them receive sense


See this one calling agbero work employment. Epele.

SouthEastFacts:
Do you see why I don't take NBS and Made in Nigeria statistics serious.

They used proportion of the labour force (15-60 years) working in white collar jobs to measure employment rate. What happened to self employment?

Did anybody notice unemployment rate in almost Northern state are single digits, while the lowest in the SE is Anambra with about 13%.

Imagine Katsina with large population and without industries has an unemployment rate lower than Anambra.

Made in Nigeria Statistics continue.

Employment and Unemployment

A person is regarded as employed if he/she is engaged in the production of goods and services, thereby contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a legitimate manner, which is a component of the national accounts and receives any form or amount of compensation for that activity. Any of these can cause fluctuations in the economically active and labor force population at any given time.

The total population in Nigeria is divided into labor force (currently active) and non-labor force (not
currently active). The labor force population covers all persons aged 15 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) who during the reference period were currently available for work, actively
seeking for work but were without work.

Rmxr:
Osun has the second lowest unemployment rate in Nigeria after Katsina

And the third lowest in underemployment rate after Taraba and Ogun.

The state is no 2 overall

Least Underemployment+unemployment rate

Taraba - 1st
Osun - 2nd
Ogun -3rd
Oyo - 4th
Ekiti-5th
Anambra-6th
Kwara -7th
Kebbi - 8th
FCT - 9th
Lagos - 10th

Osun stays shitting on their unproductive potorpotor villages . UN, Oxford, NBS have proven it.

I don't know what else they want Should we kill ram for them before they swallow their pride and admit it?

Blue3k:


See why nobody takes you guys seriously. Your inability to read and comprehend basic information is amazing. Self employed people are counted in labor force. You Igbos need to stop embarrassing yourselves. It's likes stats or English isn't taught in SE anymore.

If you work for yourself your in the labor force and your employed.

The reason North has lower employment rates is because the typical more involved with agriculture and blue collar work. The have higher under employment rates because this work is seasonal. Second graduates have higher unemployment rates as well. Blue collar work more available.

Blue3k:


See why nobody takes you guys seriously. Your inability to read and comprehend basic information is amazing. Self employed people are counted in labor force. You Igbos need to stop embarrassing yourselves. It's likes stats or English isn't taught in SE anymore.

If you work for yourself your in the labor force and your employed.

The reason North has lower employment rates is because the typical more involved with agriculture and blue collar work. The have higher under employment rates because this work is seasonal. Second graduates have higher unemployment rates as well. Blue collar work more available.

deomelo:




Igbos village square education is bad education.

SouthEastFacts:

Oga, stop deceiving yourself. We are not illiterate in the SE.

According to the statistics 1 out of every 10 job seekers are currently unemployed while 2 out of 10 of them are only underemployed. This means the other 9 are actively engaged while 8 out of the 10 are correctly priced hence satisfied with their pay package.

Check Annual job turnover in Nigeria and then tell me you believe that Made in Nigeria Statistics.

You can celebrate sham! We can't.

Blue3k:


Lol this is a pathetic response. Please save the SE the shame of being lumped in with you. The unemployment is mainly in the south were higher skilled work is demanded for graduates. The math is correct.

8/10 underemployed means they can't get full time work. 9/10 have full time work doing what ever. The rates are skewed by who it leaves out of labor market because you have to be actively seeking work. Turnover means the company able to replace employees. That means people are employed.

You guys celebrate shamed all the time. Here's a few you probably read here. Igbos control 80% of import market, Igbos own most of the properties in Lagos, etc.

SouthEastFacts:



Check Annual job turnover in Nigeria and then tell me you believe that Made in Nigeria Statistics.

Sorry, Abia is Number 1 in Education. According to the FG Sub National Competitive Index Education Pillar. I guess you don't even understand this.

SouthEastFacts:

I am done with you please.
We shall continue when you understand what under-employment means.
When I say most of you can't understand simple statistics, I wasn't joking. Which one is 8/10 and 9/10? Sorry, u need help.

Underemployment however occurs if you work less than full time hours, which is 40 hours, but work at
least 20 hours on average a week and /or if you work full time but are engaged in an activity that
underutilizes your skills, time and educational qualifications. Consequently, rural farmers only farming seasonally will be considered underemployed if they only work on their farms during the planting and
harvests period and do nothing in between. If farmers are however working in dry and wet seasons as is
increasingly becoming the case, they will then be involved in full time employment. This applies to drivers,
cooks, cleaners, bankers, teachers etc. who in most case work well over 40 hours and hence are considered
full time employed as their working hours and skills meet the adopted methodology.

It is important to note that the international definition of unemployment, underemployment or
employment is not a function of the quantity/suitability of wages earned nor it is a function of job
satisfaction. Rather employment, underemployment and unemployment are treated as a function of a
person's involvement or otherwise in economic activity even if that activity is performed solely to make
ends meet and not for satisfaction or enjoyment. The suitability of wages or job fulfilment is covered under
other indices such as the living standard, poverty rate or happiness index, but not in determining whether
one is employed, unemployed or underemployed, which is a function of economic engagement.

Blue3k:


You you read the statistics wrong to begin with. SE Village education is something else. The NBS already told you want underemployment meant and you here talking nonsense.

SouthEastFacts:

Do you know why I don't like NBS, they use proxies to capture data. This yields unreliable data.

Tell me, why should they use part time workers to capture under-employment in Nigeria? Part time work falls under under-employment but doesn't give a holistic view of that.

A graduate paid 30k is under-employed. When you study Medicine but teaches in a school, you are under-employed. When you can treat 10 patients but assigned only 7, you are still under-employed no matter how much you are paid.

Under-employement leads to labour turnout. NBS statistics says under-employment rate in Nigeria is 21%. This means 8 out of every 10 workers in Nigeria are gainfully employed. Check this with our labour turnover rate and you will discover that the labour turnover is overwhelmingly above the under-employment rate.

NBS can deceive illiterates not us.