The Central Statistical Office (CSO) says according to the 2017 Labour Force Survey (LFS) the country’s Labour Force stood at an estimated 5,049,059 persons.
Out of the total Labour Force of (5,049,059,) 2,759,098 are males while 2,289,961 are females.
CSO acting Director of Census and Statistics Goodson Sinyenga disclosed that 52.0 percent of the Labour Force is in urban areas with 48.0 percent in rural areas.
Lusaka province accounted for the largest proportion of the Labour Force at 23.4 percent, followed by Copperbelt with 18.1 and Muchinga provinces has the smallest proportion of the Labour Force accounting for 4.3 percent.
The 2017 Labour Force Survey (LFS) was generated from the data gathered during the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2017.
Mr Sinyenga revealed that Zambia is among the few countries in the world to implement the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) resolution on work and employment statistics.
And only 1/5 pay PAYE, if ZRA were efficient and collected tax from all workers PAYE could be reduced by 50% and revenue would double…but when you have dunderheads at the helm, even the obvious is impossible!!
Why MPs and President do not pay tax on their salaries and benefits?
They are parasites, leeches on hard working Zambians.
Rule of law or break starts with the politicians.
Tax them and see the change they will bring for the labor force.
Very useless statistics. Saying that there are so many people available for labour is not what we want to know, because we can easily work that out from the number of people between the ages of 18 and 60. What we want to know is the percentage of these that are EMPLOYED?
LAZY CHARACTER…WHAT ABOUT US IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR….THE SELF EMPLOYED..NDISEMALOFA??????
Cooked up numbers. Thank you.
The statistics are incomplete, why not state the percentage of those who are employed as opposed to just showing the numbers of those who are able to work. Based on the latest international statistical standards, the population of working age in a country may be classified according to their labour force status in a short reference period into three mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups: Persons in employment, persons in unemployment and persons outside the labour force. What category of the work force is being referred to in the above story?
Cooked up numbers ……how many of that Labour force are actually employed ?
These figure are simply not true.If indeed this is the official figure, then there is a serious problem at CSO. A crude check: consider that in Zambia , each working person has not less than 10 relations that are unemployed!
Fraudulent reporting.
If production has to rise copperbelt and northwest should have had the highest percentage of the workforce but the Lusaka bureaucrats and thieves are leading. God help us!