Unemployment among people with a post-matric qualification is far less than among those a grade 12 certificate.
|||Cape Town - Unemployment among people with a post-matric qualification is far less than among those with a grade 12 certificate.
Census 2011 showed the unemployment rate among people with a post-matric qualification in the Western Cape was 5.5 percent compared to 24.4 percent among those with Grade 12 or less.
Included in the post-matric group were people with a Grade 12 certificate who had also completed a certificate, diploma, degree, Masters degree or doctorate.
But not everyone with a post-matric qualification is so lucky as to get a job.
The census showed more than 15 000 people in the Western Cape with a post-matric qualification were unemployed.
Levels of unemployment of black Africans and coloureds with a post-matric qualification, were much higher than among whites, Indians and Asians living in the province.
The census showed the unemployment rate among people with a post-matric qualification were:
* 10.6 percent for black Africans.
* 5.1 percent among coloureds.
* 4.5 percent for Indians and Asians.
* And 2.6 percent for whites.
Compared to other provinces, black Africans in the Western Cape with a post-matric qualification, had the second lowest unemployment rate after Northern Cape.
Nationally the unemployment rate for people with post-matric qualification was 5 to 7 percent among coloureds, between 3 and 6 percent for Indians and Asians, and 2 to 4 percent for whites.
In the Western Cape only a tenth or 404 176 of the 4 million working-age population of 15 to 64 years have a post-matric qualification.
Gauteng has the highest level of people with a post-matric qualification – at 12.7 percent.
Among two racial groups in the Western Cape the levels of post-matric qualifications are higher than the provincial average – over 26.7 percent of Indians and Asians have a post-matric qualification and 24 percent of whites.
Among black Africans and coloured people in the Western Cape the percentage of those with a post-matric qualification works out at half of the provincial average.
* 73 469 or 5.4 percent of 1.4 million black Africans of working age have a post-matric qualification in the Western Cape, but it’s the third highest percentage rate of all nine provinces.
* Over 87 000 or 4.6 percent of 1.9m coloureds have a post-matric qualification – the third lowest of all nine provinces.
Unemployment rates among people with Grade 12 or less range from the lowest at 6.5 percent among whites, up to 34.7 percent among black Africans.
Among coloured people the unemployment rate was 20.9 percent and 14.2 percent among Indian and Asians.
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Cape Times