This was an increase of 0.5% compared to the 27.1% recorded in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Even more worrying was that the working age group population increased by 149,000 in the same period that jobs were shed, compared to the last quarter of 2018. The graduate unemployment rate was 33.5% for those aged 15-24 and 10.2% among those aged 25-34 years.
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