Nigeria’s Labor Force Statistics for the third quarter of 2018 has revealed that Lagos state alone added 740,146 jobs between July 2017 and June 2018.
According to the report, which was released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the six states that recorded the highest gains in net full-time employment between Q3 2017 and Q2 2018 include Lagos adding 740,146 net full-time jobs, Rivers (235,438), Imo(197,147), Ondo (142,514), Enugu (122,333) and Kaduna (118,929).
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The NBS, however, noted that these figures are affected by a few factors such as migration rates.
“States with a higher propensity for women to be housewives or stay home husbands or that have negative attitudes to working tend to have lower unemployment rates, as they are not considered part of the labour force in the first place,” the report stated.
“These States tend to have a higher proportion of their economically active population outside the labour force thereby reducing the number looking for work and hence the number that can be unemployed.”