Rwanda - Rwanda Labour Force Survery 2025

Reference ID

RWA-NISR-RLFS-2025-v0.1

Year

Country

Rwanda

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) - Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN)

Sponsor(s)

Government of Rwanda - GoR - Funder

Metadata

Created on

Apr 08, 2026

Last modified

Apr 08, 2026

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What was the main reason (NAME) did not try to find a paid job or start a busine (C24)
File: RW_LFS2025

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 75
Decimals: 0
Range: 1-14

Valid cases: 12378
Invalid: 88474

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Own illness	1072	8.7%
2	Disability	123	1.0%
3	Studies	1434	11.6%
4	Pregnancy	196	1.6%
5	Presence of small children/Elders/sick people	1590	12.8%
6	Refusal by family	143	1.2%
7	Past failure to find suitable job	353	2.9%
8	Lack of experience, qualification or jobs matching skills	187	1.5%
9	Lack of jobs in the area	6373	51.5%
10	Considered too young or too old by prospective employers	339	2.7%
11	Lack of infrastructure (assets, roads, transportation, employment services)	104	0.8%
12	Other sources of income (pension, rent)	307	2.5%
13	Estrangement	20	0.2%
14	Other specify	137	1.1%
Sysmiss		88474

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