Employment
Observations
Around 17% of the jihadi cohort was unemployed or reliant on welfare. This is well above the national average of 6%, but lower than the rate recorded in comparable European studies.
Coverage123 of 183The data for this item is known for 67.2%
of the relevant individuals.
24
Student – school or university
19.5%
23
Unemployed / receiving benefits
18.7%
56
Blue collar
45.5%
13
White Collar
10.6%
7
Professional
5.7%
Blue collar work involves manual or unskilled labour not requiring a
higher level of education. White collar work is skilled or semi-skilled
labour, generally office based. Those in the ‘professional’ category
have obtained specific tertiary education commensurate to their
employment, e.g. doctors, accountants, pilots, engineers.