Elementary Occupations News Today

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting that Jamaica's unemployment rate continues to improve, with more women taking up jobs. At a press conference today, it was disclosed that the unemployment rate for the month July 2023...

PILOTS, software developers, statisticians, and accountants are among the highest-paid workers in the country, according to the latest data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Based on the 2022 Occupational Wages Survey (OWS), the PSA said the overall average monthly wage rate of time-rated workers on a full-time basis was P18,423 in 2022. This

Botswana's unemployment levels grew in 2021 on the back of continued negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fifth report of the Labour Force Module from the quarterly Multi Topic Survey (QMTS) by Statistics Botswana has reported.  The Employed Population (15 years and above) recorded a decline of 2.2 percent between quarters four (4) 2020 and four (4) of 2021, from 733,875 to 717,418 persons.

  How does all this look in the real world? The ONS classifies all work into 9 Major Groups, from CEOs and Generals in Group 1 (Managers, Directors and Senior Officials) to warehouse staff and farm labourers in Group 9 (Elementary Occupations).  Each group faces very different risks from automation. Often, though not always, the less skilled a job, the more at risk it is. And because women and young people often do less-skilled, casual work, as they start careers, or juggle the childcare whic...

Preliminary results from the most recent Labour Force Survey (LFS) done by the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) reveal that, for the month of September 2020, the national unemployment rate was 13.7%. For this round of the survey, there were revisions for the definition of a number of words including “employed”, “unemployed”, and “underemployed”. These revisions, according to the SIB, were done in accordance with a resolution of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statis...