QLFS: Employment up by 330 000 and unemployment down by 129 000 in the Western Cape
28 February 2023
I am elated that employment statistics in the Western Cape increased by 330 000 year-on-year, representing an increase of 14.7%.
In addition, the Western Cape recorded the largest employment increase in the country quarter-on-quarter, with an additional 167 000 employed persons in our province.
This is according to the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, released by Statistics South Africa today.
It is further good news that the unemployment rates, both on the official and expanded definitions, decreased by 2 percentage points and 2.7 percentage points respectively, quarter-on-quarter and by 5.5 percentage points and 3.6 percentage points respectively year-on-year.