The Federal Government is to use the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) being generated to address unemployment, Minister/Deputy Chairman National Planning Commission, (NPC), Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, said yesterday.
Usman made this known in a chat with newsmen in Gombe after a ceremonial flag- off of the states’ GDP Computation.
According to him: “In fact, we will use the GDP that is generated to be able to tackle unemployment better.
‘’Right now there is so much talk about unemployment but only recently that we are even beginning to really try to understand.
‘’What is the nature of this unemployment? What is the breakdown of it? What are the regional characteristics of it?”
A statement in Abuja by Head of Information at the NPC, Salisu Haiba Badamasi, said the Minister also explained that the kind of survey being worked out now by the government will correctly determine the level of unemployment statistics in each state that differentiates it with other.
Usman asked: “even within one state, what is the situation in Gombe state that differentiates it from other states?”
He stated further: “The National Bureau of Statistics is in the middle of conducting a very detailed comprehensive survey on unemployment across the whole country and this will become a quarterly figure.
“Government is now trying to understand the nature of this unemployment problem. The unemployment situation in Kano is different from that of Lagos.
‘’We need to understand such peculiarities as to what are the age groups; what are the breakdown between men and women; what are the different employment opportunities that exist in each state?”
The Minister described unemployment situation as a problem but pointed out ‘’the more data that you generate, the better you are able to tackle the problem by having specific targeted policies that are able to address unemployment.’’
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