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.
Coverage118 of 174The data for this item is known for 67.8%
of the relevant individuals.
25
Student – school or university
21.2%
20
Unemployed / receiving benefits
16.9%
53
Blue collar
44.9%
13
White Collar
11.0%
7
Professional
5.9%
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.