Employment
Total
Total
Total
female
contribution (%)
Gender
100.0
Male
Female
100.0
100.0
34.9
Management services, legal
drafting
6.1
7.0
4.6
25.9
Various employments
6.5
3.4
12.3
65.8
Technical services
6.0
6.3
5.6
32.3
Clerical
4.0
2.9
5.9
51.8
10.9
11.5
9.8
31.3
18.6
18.9
18.0
33.8
16.2
16.3
15.8
34.2
8.6
11.3
3.5
14.3
22.6
21.6
24.3
37.7
0.5
0.7
0.2
12.6
Sale Assistants
Agriculture
and
fishery
related employments
Handicrafts
Estates
Initial employment
Forces
Source: Labour Force Survey in Sri Lanka- Annual Report -2015
(Department of Census and Statistics)
In the context of un-employment level as at Second Quarter -2017, it amounts to 380,594
on the whole. According to computed data, unemployment in the first quarter of 2017
amounts to 4.5%. In the context of unemployment populace in the second quarter of 2017,
females amount to 7.1 % while males are at 3.0%. Unemployed younger population as at
second quarter-2017 is 20.0%. According to available data, unemployed female population
is comparatively larger than the unemployed male population. As such, following data
indicate the fact that younger unemployed female population accounts for a lion’s share in
the unemployed female population.
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