Employment
Observations
Around 23% 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.
Coverage127 of 207The data for this item is known for 61.4%
of the relevant individuals.
23
Student – school or university
18.1%
29
Unemployed / receiving benefits
22.8%
55
Blue collar
43.3%
12
White Collar
9.4%
8
Professional
6.3%
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.