Reference

Figures

The numbers in circulation about work in Botswana, each with the instrument, population and period that produced it.

Most figures reach a reader stripped of the three things that decide whether they can be used: what was counted, who was counted, and when. Two Statistics Botswana surveys currently give unemployment rates six and a half points apart, and the figure search engines return most often is a World Bank model for an age band Botswana does not report on. These tables put each number back beside its source.