THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) said Tuesday that the country's' unemployment rate was now 11.3%, far below the 85-90% range widely used commentators and the opposition.
"The explanation for the substantial gap between the two estimates of unemployment is the size of the informal sector," Zimstat said in its 2016 survey report.
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