Inactive persons (or persons not in the labour force) include persons who may be at school, retired, incapacitated, keeping house and do not want work, although they can work
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The Barbados Vocational Training Board seeks to provide persons with marketable and employable skills so that they will be able to respond to any employment opportunities that may exist. Therefore the BVTB provides a number of training opportunities such as the skills training programmes. Before developing a skills training programme a need within the job market is identified. Those needs identified then feed into the course content and a skills training programme is born (Read More)
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Latest Snapshot of the Barbados Labour Market
| ANNUAL STATISTICS: 2009 |
Male |
Female |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult Population (000’s) | 100.8 | 112.3 | 213.1 |
| Labour Force (000’s) | 72.9 | 69.8 | 142.7 |
| Employed Labour Force (000’s) | 65.5 | 63.0 | 128.5 |
| Participation Rate (%) | 72.3 | 62.2 | 67.0 |
| Unemployment Rate (%) | 10.1 | 9.8 | 10.0 |
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