UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOME RELATED VARIABLES IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS OF EGYPT. | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 7, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2003, Pages 4599-4616 PDF (731.64 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.243601 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. I. Elezaby,1; Amany A. El-Said2 | ||
| 1Dept. of Rural Sociology, Fac. of Agriculture, Alexandria university. | ||
| 2Agriculture Extension and Rural Development Research Institute. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study alms basically at identifying some variables rei ted to unemployment in both rural and urban areas based upon data obtained from the Employment Research made by Center Agency of Public Mobiization and Statistics in 1998. Finding.of the study can be Summarized as follows: 1-Percentage of unemployment was 8.5% of the total Labour force in rural areas while it was 7.9%in urban areas. Percentage of unempl yment among males was 5.1 % while it was 19.9% among females. T e total number of unemployees was145000 constitutes 8.2% of total labour torce In Egypt in1998. 2-The findings indicated that unemployment rates were negatively re ated to age and positively related to lellel of educaucn whether in rural or urban areas. 3-Variables of sex, age and level of education, taken together, el(plafned 58% of the variance in the unemployment in rural areas and 51% of variance of unemployment in urban areas. 4-The findings indicate also that all of sex , age, level of ecucanon and geographical context (rural and urban) were related significantly to unemployment in Egypt. These four variables explained 53% of the variance in unemployment rates. The study was concluded with a discussion of its major findings and a number of suggestions were introduced. | ||
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