Last year, 39% of the working-age Roma were employed, compared with 65% among the working age non-Roma. Fully 16% of the Roma were registered as unemployed while another 45% were registered as inactive in that year, as against 4% and 31% in the non-Roma majority, respectively.

The proportion of Roma who found employment, however, went up last year, compared with 2014, due mainly to the government’s fostered work scheme, the paper said. It said that according to the survey, 42% of the employed Roma found placement under the work scheme, adding that 20% of all foster workers were Roma.

KSH indicates ethnicity in its labour market survey since 2014, the paper said.

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