Particular attention in this group should be paid to persons who are potential unemployed but have been discouraged or do not know where and how to find a job. The results of the survey show that the number of discouraged persons in the 2nd quarter of 2008 was 16.8 thsd or 2.9 % of the economically inactive population. In comparison with the 2nd quarter of 2007, their number has increased by 0.2 thousand.
Of these, pensioners in the 2nd quarter of 2008 accounted for slightly more than two fifths (40.8%), pupils and students who in the reference week studied full time and did not work were every third (32%), every eleventh (9.3%) considered themselves as housekeepers or were persons who had been ill for a long time or disabled (9.0%).
Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
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