Telling numbers: The rise of unemployment rate, within various religious groups

Source: Minority Affairs Ministry

The unemployment rates have been disaggregated for males and females as well as urban and rural areas.

Workers in the “usual status” category include (a) persons who worked for a relatively large part of the 365 days preceding the date of the survey, and (b) persons from among the remaining population who had worked for at least 30 days during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of the survey.

Category (a) refers to “principal status” and the category (b) to “subsidiary status” and the “usual status” definition includes both. As such, usual status is a more relaxed measure of unemployment.

For instance, some of the unemployed under “principal status” might be working in a subsidiary capacity.