Survey: Householders Constitute 62% of Unemployment Benefit Applicants

A survey conducted by the Social Security Organization’s Research Institute of over 700,000 applicants of unemployment insurance benefits shows 61.9% of them were the head of households and 27.1% lived in families with another wage earner. 
According to Rouzbeh Kerdouni, the head of the institute, 40.4% of the respondents were women and 59.6% men.
Noting that 21.2% of those surveyed were single and 72.4% married, he added that of those who had applied for unemployment benefits, 22.6% had permanent and 77.4% held temporary contracts with their employer, 86.4% of them had never received benefits and 76.7% of respondents said they had applied for unemployment insurance.