Table of Contents

Acknowledgement
Introduction
Title
Objectives
Background
Methodology
Presentation of Data
Analysis of Data and Interpretation
Findings
Conclusion
Recommendation
Bibliography
Appendix

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 Acknowledgement
In the assistance of achieving the completion of this study, the researcher would like to thank a
number of persons for their kind cooperation and help they provided.

The researcher would like to thank her family for their assistance and encouragement, and the
residents of Mahaica for doing the researcher a favour of completing the questionnaires and
answering questions during the interview.

The researcher would also like to thank her teacher for his guidance throughout every step of the
project.

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 Introduction
Unemployment is defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the people who do not have a job,
have actively looked for and are currently available for work. Also, people who were waiting to
be called back to that job are included in the unemployment statistics.

In the finalization of completing this topic, the researcher shared out a number of questionnaires,
as well as carried out a few interviews to get a better understanding of the causes and effects of
unemployment on Mahaica.

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 Title
Causes and effects of unemployment on Mahaica

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 Objectives
 What are the causes of unemployment?
 What are some effects of unemployment?
 What are some of the economical effects unemployment has on Mahaica?
 What are some of the social effect of unemployment on Mahaica?
 What are some of the consequences faced by persons being unemployed?
 What can be done by both the government and the society to help decrease the population
size of unemployed persons?

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 Background
What is unemployment?

People who are jobless, actively seeking work, and available to take a job.

Slightly more than 172 million people globally were unemployed in 2018. That is about 2
million less than the previous year. The International Labour Organization expects the global
unemployment rate of the fivr percent to remain essentially unchanged over the next five
years.

LIMA (ILO News)- The unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean fell slightly
to a forecast 7.8 in 2018, from 8.1 percent in 2017, reversing a three year trend of rising
unemployment, the ILO said in its overview 2018 regional report.

The unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 12.2 percent corresponding to
36,416 persons. This rate is not very different from the rate registered in the 2012 census and
third quarter 2017, where unemployment was 12.5 and 12 percent respectively.

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 Methodology
The researcher chose two methods in conducting the surveys for unemployment in her
community.

Questionnaire

It is a set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purposes of
a survey or statistical study.

Questionnaires can be an effective means of measuring the behaviour, attitude, preferences,

opinions and intentions of relatively large numbers of subjects more cheaply and quickly than
other methods.

There is also limitations in using such method of data collection. Some are the following:

 if you forget to ask a question, you cannot usually go back to respondents, especially if
they are anonymous.
 it is sometimes difficult to obtain a sufficient number of responses, especially from postal
questionnaires.
Interview
An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given. In
common parlance, the word 'interview' refers to a one-on-one conversation between an
interviewer and an interviewee.
The main advantage of interviews are that they are useful to obtain detail information
about personal feelings, perception and opinions, they allow more detailed questions to
be asked and they usually achieve a high response rate.
Similarly to the questionnaires, interviews also have their disadvantages. Some would be
the following:
 they can be very time-consuming: setting up, interviewing, transcribing, analyzing,
feedback, reporting.
 they can be costly.
 different interviewers may understand and transcribe interviews in different ways.

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 Presentation of data
What do you think is the main cause of Unemployment?

Lack of Qualifications/education 11

Lack of Jobs available 4

Salary/wages 3

Cultural/ social factor 2

Figure 1.
Bar graph displays the responses given by residents of Mahaica.

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What do you think is the main effect of unemployment?

Poverty 13

Depression or other mental issues 2

Unhealthy lifestyles 2

Addiction problems 3

Figure 2.

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 What is the main economical effect of unemployment in Mahaica?

Increase in poverty 17

Loss of Human Resources 1

Exploitation of labour 2

Figure 3.

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 What is the main social effect of unemployment on Mahaica?

Depression/Anxiety 4

High suicidal rate 6

Increase in crime rate 7

Broken home 3

Figure 4.

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 Analysis and Interpretation of Data
Figure 1- The bar graph displays residents’ personal opinion as to the main causes of
unemployment. The majority of 11 respondents chose lack of qualification and education while
the least amount of 3 chose cultural/social factor. The remaining were 7, 3 chose salary/wages
and 4 chose lack of jobs available.
Figure 2- The histogram exhibits residents’ choice of response for the main effect of
unemployment in Mahaica. The most popular opinion was poverty which held 13 response while
depression or other mental issues and unhealthy lifestyles had the least number of responses of 2
each. Addictions problem had 3 responses.
Figure 3- The line graph simply demonstrates responses from residents’ view upon the main
economical effect of unemployment in Mahaica. The most common response of 17 was increase
in poverty and loss of human resource gain the least of 1. Exploitation gained the second least of
2 responses.
Figure 4- The bar graph shows the number of responses gained after answering the question as to
what is the main social effect of unemployment on Mahaica. Increase in crime rate came top of
the list with 7b responses and broken homes came last with 3 responses. Depression and anxiety
had 4 response and high suicidal rate had 6 responses.

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 Findings
The survey has revealed that the following are real life situation of the effects and causes of
unemployment in Mahaica:
 During the interviews with residents, more than half of respondents said that their
standard of living has dropped over the last few years of being unemployed.
 Crime rate has increased rapidly.
 Depression is becoming a trend amongst teenagers living in broken homes.
 Debts of these unemployed residents are becoming larger

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Conclusion