1.3 million employees in the public and private sectors, 25% of whom are illiterate and less than average

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According to official data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics [CAPMAS], public and private sectors have about 1.3 million employees, 25.1% of whom are illiterate and below average qualifications, according to the results of the Statistical Bulletin of Wage and Employment Statistics for 2018, Statistics Authority.

According to the statistical data, which received the "seventh day" a detailed version of them, the total number of employees in the public and private sectors illiterate and those who read and write and those with qualifications below the average, about 327,200 employees, representing about 25.19% of the total number of employees in the sectors, while The number of employees with intermediate qualifications reached 463,201 thousand.

The figures show that the average number of employees in the public and private sectors is 85,378 thousand, the lowest number of illiterate employees of 46.256 thousand, while the number of employees with university qualifications is 422,679. Which number 463,201 thousand employees, as mentioned above.

The data also pointed to the number of public and private sector employees with less than average qualifications of 158.706 thousand employees, while the number of people reading and writing 122.238 thousand employees. In the same context, statistical data brought to the total male and female public sector employees, Numbering about 1.092 million employees, compared to 205.704 thousand female employees only.

The numerical distribution of public and private sector employees, according to type and educational qualification, as follows:

– Employment statistics