According to the survey results, at national level the labour force participation rate among female was lower by 17.7 percentage points than that of male (45.1% against 62.8% respectively).
It was the highest in rural area by 18.6 percentage points (41.3% for female against 59.9% for male) than in urban area where the difference was 13.1 percentage points (60.5% for female against 73.6 % for males).
The data show that there is a slight difference between female and male who were employed in dependent jobs as employees in favour of males. The percentage of female employed as employees was 66.2% against 68% among males.
Informal employment
The results of the survey show that there were 91,2% of females working population with informal employment compared to 88,3% among employed male.
The findings also show that the majority of the employed population was employed on a daily wage job contract basis, and women were overly represented in that category with 60,9% of women having daily wage job contract compared to 52,6% among men.
Unemployment
The unemployment rate stood at 17% among female while it was 13,8% among their male counterparts, and higher among young female aged 16-30 years old (22,4%) than among their young male counterparts (16,9%).