§ 69. Mr. Dribergasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish in HANSARD a table showing the approximate percentages of the adult and juvenile inhabitants of Mauritius who are chronically unemployed, the number of school-leavers in each of the last ten years, and the approximate percentage of these who have found regular employment within a year of leaving school.
§ Mr. GreenwoodThere is no compulsory unemployment registration in Mauritius and it is therefore not possible to give the percentages of chronically144W unemployed. The following table shows the number of school leavers in each of the last ten years. I regret that the approximate percentage of these who found regular employment within a year of leaving school is not known.
Year Primary School Leavers Secondary School Leavers 1955 … Not available 811 1956 … Not available 1,711 1957 … 5,170 2,109 1958 … 5,228 1,716 1959 … 7,831 2,133 1960 … 6,993 3,162 1961 … 9,162 4,219 1962 … 4,687 4,402 1963 … 8,925 6,051 1964 … 9,000 4,903 (estimated)