The unemployment rate for 2019 will remain at 3.3 per cent, says the chief statistician.
The impact of the movement control order to fight the Covid-19 pandemic on the employment situation is expected to be seen in the indices for March and the rest of the year, said Chief Statistician Mohd Uzir Mahidin.
Commenting on the Malaysian Labour Force Report 2019 which among others shows the unemployment rate for 2019 remaining at 3.3 per cent, the same as 2018, Mohd Uzir said it was because Covid-19 was not very much in the picture then."The rate for March will be published on May 8, 2020," he said in a statement today.
On the labour force, he said there was a two per cent increase with 15.6 million people employed in 2019 as compared to 15.3 million in 2018. The labour participation rate in 2019 also rose by 0.4 percentage points to 68.7 per cent as compared to 68.3 per cent in 2018. Employment of those with tertiary education also rose by 0.8 percentage points to 29.4 per cent in 2019 as compared to 28.6 per cent in 2018. -
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