SCI: Q4 Employment Rate at 36.9%

Iran’s employment rate was at 36.9% (23.13 million) in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year (Dec. 21, 2020-March 20), down 0.9% compared with the same quarter of the previous Iranian year.
Employment rates for men and women were at 62.8% and 11.1% respectively, which constituted 19.65 million men and 3.48 million women in Q4, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.
The employment rate was 36% or 17.28 million in urban areas and 40.1% or 5.84 million in rural areas. 
The share of employment of university graduates stood at 25.3% of the total employed population, wherein male and female graduate employment was 21.7% and 45.4%, respectively. Graduate employment rates in urban and rural areas stood at 31.1% and 8.1% of the total population of job-holders respectively. 
Employment is defined as persons of working age engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to a temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement.