Islamabad
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) Tuesday clarified that the total graduate unemployment rate was estimated at 14.9 percent across the country according to Labour Force Sur-vey (LFS) 2017-18.
A statement issued by PIDE said that the insti-tute was in process of estimating unemployment, including graduate unemployment, using the re-cently released Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2017-18, and the figures quoted to Senate Standing Committee were the same as presented at the Plan-ning Commission last year.
“The total graduate unemployment rate was estimated at 14.9 percent but mistakenly it was men-tioned 24 percent, with the rates for graduate females at a high 40 percent,”.—APP
