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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Chinedu Asadu

Nigeria's unemployment rate falls to 4.1%, using new methodology. Analysts say it’s an undercount

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Nigeria’s statistics agency on Thursday reported the country’s unemployment rate as 4.1%, the lowest in many years, but one analysts said was an undercount because of the agency's new methodology.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) now classifies the employed in Nigeria as those working for at least one hour a week, as against the 20-hour-a-week parameter it had been using.

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