Labour market statistics includes indicators and indices by sex and porportion of age group , full-time and part-time employment, employment by permanency of the job, economic short time workers and involuntary part time workers.Labour market statistics is needed by people interested in doing something to better our labour market.
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Labour force (population 15+ years) |
2016 |
2021 |
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Total |
Male | Female | Total | Male |
Female |
|
| Employed population (number) |
33,973 |
20,390 | 13,583 | 30,734 | 16,338 | 14,396 |
| Paid workers (number) | 23,323 | 14,008 | 9,315 | 20,941 | 11,696 | 9,245 |
| Subsistence workers (number) | 7,470 | 4,493 | 2,977 | 4,426 | 3,247 | 1,179 |
| Not in the labour force (number) | 23,129 | 8,939 | 14,190 | 33,600 | 13,796 | 19,804 |
| Labour force participation rate | 63.7 | 71.2 | 56.7 | 48.5 | 54.9 | 43.0 |
| Employment to population ratio | 36.6 | 45.2 | 28.4 | 47.1 | 53.4 | 41.5 |
| Unemployment rate (%)1 | 16.4 | 7.6 | 26.8 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| Unemployment rate (%)2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 11.0 | 8.7 | 13.4 |
| Unemployment rate (%)3 | 34.8 | 27.9 | 42.9 | 14.9 | 18.5 |
10.6 |
1 People who did not work during the reference week but looked for work and were available and willing to start work.
2 People who did not work during the reference week but were available and willing to start work, regardless of looking for work. This is the national definition of unemployment.
3 Subsistence workers were also included as unemployed.
The following statistics was obtained from 2021 Tonga Population and Housing Census.
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Labour force indicators (population 15+ years) |
2021 |
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Total |
Males |
Females |
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| Employed population (number) | 30,734 | 16,338 | 14,396 |
| Paid workers – Employees (number) | 15,772 | 8,798 | 6,974 |
| Paid workers – Employers (number) | 954 | 664 | 290 |
| Own account workers | 4,215 | 2,234 | 1,981 |
| Contributing family member | 327 | 196 | 131 |
| Unclassified works | 9,466 | 4,446 | 5,020 |
| Not in the labour force (number)[1] | 33,600 | 13,796 | 19,804 |
| Subsistence workers (number) | 4,426 | 3,247 | 1,179 |
| Studying | 9,118 | 4,202 | 4,916 |
| Household duties | 16,226 | 4,187 | 12,039 |
| Voluntary without pay | 264 | 193 | 71 |
| Looking for work | 384 | 255 | 129 |
| Retired of Pensioner (too old) | 1,463 | 695 | 768 |
| With long-term illness injury or disability | 978 | 538 | 440 |
| Missing | 741 | 479 | 262 |
| Employment to population ratio | 47.1 | 53.4 | 41.5 |
| Unemployment rate (%)1 | 3.1% | 2.7% | 3.5% |
| Unemployment rate (%)2 | 11% | 8.7% | 13.4% |
| Unemployment rate (%)3 | 14.9% | 18.5% | 10.6% |
[1] Table 13.8 – Tonga 2021 Population and Housing Volume 2 Analytical Report, Tonga Statistics Department
Labour Market figures obtained from the Census of Population and Housing Survey
| Latest Year Available | Census 2011 | Census 2006 | ||||
| Total | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | |
| Labour force (15 years and over) | ||||||
| Employed population (number) | 33,422 | 19,695 | 13,727 | 35290 | 19,956 | 15,334 |
| Paid workers (number) | 23698 | 13,977 | 9,721 | 23438 | 14273 | 9,165 |
| Subsistence workers (number) | 9,549 | 5,612 | 3,937 | 11497 | 5,499 | 5,998 |
| Other unspecified works (number) | 175 | 106 | 69 | 355 | 184 | 171 |
| Non – labour force (15 years and over) | ||||||
| Students | 9026 | 4,403 | 4,623 | 8906 | 4396 | 4,510 |
| Retired or too old | 3,857 | 1,528 | 2,329 | |||
| Disabled | 838 | 457 | 381 | |||
| Home responsible or domestic duties | 13,801 | 3,554 | 10,247 | 10312 | 3,115 | 7,197 |
| Other (according to adjusted unemployed)* | 6,753 | 3,050 | 3,703 | 8189 | 3,760 | 4,429 |
| Labour Force partipation rate | 52.3 | 62.7 | 42.3 | 56.6 | 64.2 | 49 |
| Employment population ratio | 36.7 | 44 | 29.6 | 37.2 | 45.4 | 29 |
| Unemployment rate (%) | 1.1 | 1 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Unemployment rate (%) – adjusted definition* | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.5 |
| Unemployment rate (%) of ‘subsistence | 33.2 | 33.1 | 33.3 | 35.9 | 30.8 | 42.5 |
| work’ is classified as unemployed | ||||||
Note: * Consistent with international definition of unemployed, it includes those who did not work but were looking and available to work
** Adjusted to also include discouraged workers
*** Adjusted to also include subsistence and discouraged workers
Discourage workers includes those who believed no work was available, or because of weather conditions, or could not afford transport costs
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