Table 4.

Unemployment and occupation by key characteristics and by sex

Nigerian DHS 2008 (weighted)
	Percentage not working	Professional/Technical	Clerical	Sales	Agricultural (self-employed)	Services	Skilled manual labor	Unskilled manual labor
Age
15–19	66.0	0.6	0.5	9.3	13.0	2.2	6.1	2.1
20–24	43.6	2.6	1.4	17.7	16.0	5.3	11.2	1.7
25–29	26.2	5.0	1.7	25.6	18.9	7.8	13.6	0.8
30–34	17.1	7.5	1.5	32.0	21.6	7.1	12.5	0.3
35–39	13.5	7.9	1.5	33.8	25.3	5.6	11.7	0.1
40–44	13.0	8.5	1.4	32.3	28.6	5.4	10.3	0.2
45–49	12.4	8.5	1.0	33.2	30.0	4.5	9.7	0.1
Total	30.7	5.3	5.3	23.8	21.2	5.6	10.7	0.9
Sex
Male	13.4	7.7	1.4	12.9	34.1	9.6	15.2	2.3
Female	37.3	4.1	1.2	28.9	15.2	3.8	8.7	0.3
Region
North Central	26.8	5.0	1.0	17.8	36.7	3.6	6.6	2.1
North East	29.2	1.9	0.5	21.3	33.2	2.7	9.5	1.1
North West	35.4	2.7	0.5	26.2	18.6	2.8	12.5	1.0
South East	35.2	6.7	1.4	22.5	15.5	7.8	10.1	0.6
South West	30.8	5.9	1.8	21.6	19.0	9.3	10.7	0.6
South South	26.2	9.1	2.4	29.4	11.3	7.9	12.7	0.4
Place of residence
Urban	32.3	8.9	2.5	27.8	5.8	8.3	12.9	1.0
Rural	29.8	3.2	0.6	21.6	30.0	4.1	9.5	0.9
Highest educational
No education	30.1	0.5	0.2	26.4	30.1	2.3	9.8	0.2
Primary	17.9	1.1	0.4	27.2	31.8	7.4	13.5	0.5
Secondary	38.3	3.6	1.8	21.6	13.2	7.9	11.7	1.5