Scotland’s low unemployment rate does not include more than 350,000 people who are involuntarily out of work but classed as economically inactive, according to the Centre for Cities.
The urban policy research unit's annual economic assessment argues that while official figures currently show Scotland’s jobseeker rate at 3.6%, the actual ‘hidden’ unemployment rate is more than four times higher at 14.9%.
This is because the official rate only includes those who are actively looking for employment and does not measure people who are neither in work, nor looking for a job, due to circumstances outside of their control.
