Hungary Roma Have Poor School Qualifications, Jobs

  • 2 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
Hungary Roma Have Poor School Qualifications, Jobs
Members of Hungary’s Roma community have rather poor school qualifications and employment opportunities, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Monday, citing a labour market survey by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). As much as 80% of the Roma aged between 15 and 64 have only finished primary school, compared with 20% of the non-Roma population, the paper said, citing the survey.

Last year, 39% of the working-age Roma were employed, compared with 65% among the working age non-Roma. Fully 16% of the Roma were registered as unemployed while another 45% were registered as inactive in that year, as against 4% and 31% in the non-Roma majority, respectively.

The proportion of Roma who found employment, however, went up last year, compared with 2014, due mainly to the government’s fostered work scheme, the paper said. It said that according to the survey, 42% of the employed Roma found placement under the work scheme, adding that 20% of all foster workers were Roma.

KSH indicates ethnicity in its labour market survey since 2014, the paper said.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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