DUSHANBE, January 24, 2012, Asia-Plus — As of November 30, 2011, more than 55,000 people in Tajikistan were registered as unemployed, which is 7,000 people more than in 2010, Alijon Kulov, the head of the labor and employment department of the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on January 23.
According to him, an official unemployment rate was estimated at 2.6 percent of the economically active population of the country.
“Women constituted 52 percent (28,900 people) of the officially registered unemployed in Tajikistan,” Kulov said, noting that they conducted quarterly surveys to define the number of unemployed people during 2004-2009 under financial support of the World Bank.
“According to the findings of the survey conducted in 2009, the level of general unemployment is five times higher than the level of the official unemployment,” said Tajik official. “Thus, the official data shows that the unemployment rate is estimated at 2.6 percent of the economically active population, while according to the findings of the survey, the unemployment rate is estimated at 10.5 percent of the economically active population.”
