by Natthaphon Sangpolsit

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of below 1% in February, owing to government efforts to maintain job security and income generation for the public during the pandemic.

 

According to Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul, only 360,000 people were without a job in February. The National Statistical Office of Thailand reported that the figure covers 58.81 million Thai citizens aged 15 and above, but excludes housewives, people with disabilities and students, among others.

 

The deputy spokesperson attributed the low unemployment rate to policies implemented by the administration of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

The policies aimed to help the general public stay employed and generate income through various measures. Maintaining employment rates, particularly during the pandemic, is widely considered a positive development as it indicates that the nation’s economy has remained relatively stable despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230430175027422

 

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42 minutes ago, webfact said:

The policies aimed to help the general public stay employed and generate income through various measures

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

Today is the 1st of May not April.

What a load of $hit.

I find it hard to believe that anyone in Thailand knows for real how many people are employed/unemployed and what they use here is just figures of registered people and not what are the real numbers in the whole of the country.

57 minutes ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

By Thai standards, those people, as well as the ones 'watching things in the city', (Thai) beggars, etc., are not unemployed... Wow, 'less than 1% unemployment', what a happy country it must be!

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

I am always wondering wherever I go on any day of the week, where all the people come from who are drinking coffee, walking in shopping malls etc. It seems that almost nobody s workin and a lot of people even young ones drive big cars, so that even my Thai partner ask me where does the money come from and what kind of work do they do?? And I agree.. It seems that nobody is working and that there is a lot of money they all can spend.... so I think this article is rubbish.. but of course don't count housewives, students, peope with disabilities, the eledery the tourists, the expats, and you can make the figures looks the best

2 hours ago, webfact said:

owing to government efforts to maintain job security and income generation for the public during the pandemic.

AKA Overmanning.  The average Thai 'worker' (word used very loosely) would not last a week in the West; check out the hordes of shop assistants following potential customers in a desperate attempt to stave off boredom.  The assistants have one thing in common; zero knowledge of any of the products on sale.  They are only there for the air-con.

23 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

I'm suggesting that the unemployment numbers may be somewhat dodgy!

2 hours ago, webfact said:

According to Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul, only 360,000 people were without a job in February.

Please explain the many other folks who are not working now or in the previous jobs where they were paid under the table as they are still closed, or better yet those folks were never reported as working.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of below 1% in February, owing to government efforts to maintain job security and income generation for the public during the pandemic.

According to Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul, only 360,000 people were without a job in February.

 

Edited May 1, 20233 yr by hotchilli

Unemployment rate is below 1%, labor participation rate is 65%...

 

This is basically full of something but it aint employment. More pre-election propoganda. 

Wow!  With the jobs economy doing so well, it's time to promote more Generals!

I believe that when someone loses a job they go back to dad's farm and are counted as employees. No one is unemployed in a farm. 

8 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

l think he's or she is joking , not serious just banter 

So I can safely assume fishing and sleeping are also a form of employment? My village is then fully employed!

13 hours ago, webfact said:

The deputy spokesperson attributed the low unemployment rate to policies implemented by the administration of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Or could it be that in Thailand 5+ are employed to do the same job as a westerner.

Thaiwatsadu comes to mind....

Did they get this figure from the completed tax forms they send out....

11 minutes ago, WHansen said:

Or could it be that in Thailand 5+ are employed to do the same job as a westerner.

I'm not sure that's still the case, looking at some of the western millennial loafers.

Edited May 1, 20233 yr by sidneybear

Election time...

13 hours ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

Give over.

 

This is all about Bangkok.

 

Rural unemployment is a totally different matter.

Easy to get 1%, when almost nobody report that  they are unemployd.

3 hours ago, PeterA said:

So I can safely assume fishing and sleeping are also a form of employment? My village is then fully employed!

Independence and self-sufficiency isn't reasoned as a way of life in particular Occidental circles.......as it doesn't exist in their world. Kinda sad. 

12 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

It isn't classified as formal employment. Thailand's 'Unemployment Rate' only considers those registered as employed and paying taxes, which comprises approximately 60% of the working population. The informal sector, which includes most of agriculture, makes up the other 40%.

Always gotta  LMFAO when I read these "statistics"❗????

14 hours ago, sherwood said:

Today is the 1st of May not April.

What a load of $hit.

When 80% of the workforce work for cash and pay no tax how on earth can they claim they know unemployment is running below 1%.  So pathetically third world.

11 hours ago, Sweet Swede said:

Easy to get 1%, when almost nobody report that  they are unemployd.

They need to give out unemployment benefits, then the numbers would really swell. 

It's about 90% unemployment in some villages but I suppose there will be variations

Many people don't want to work, but are unemployed.....