Working hours lost due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Northern Africa 2020

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In the third quarter of 2020, Northern Africa lost

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percent of its total working hours as an implication for the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Compared to both the African and world averages, the region lost more working hours in the second and third quarters of the same year. Moreover, North Africa was most affected in the second quarter with more than a fifth of the hours of work estimated to be lost.

As of November 29, 2020, the region had recorded

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overall cases of the coronavirus, while the casualties in the sub-region added up to

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Percentage of working hours lost during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Northern Africa from 1st to 3rd quarter 2020

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September 2020

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

Q1 to Q3 2020

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Estimates as of September 23, 2020

Supplementary notes

The sub-region contains the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.

The source estimated the values based on a model namely "nowcasting model".

Values were calculated taking employment levels of the fourth quarter of 2019 as the baseline.

Full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs data that are more than 50 million are rounded up to five million, while the values lower than the threshold are rounded to the closest million.

To demonstrate the magnitude of the predicted hours lost, the equivalent losses in full time jobs are introduced. They are calculated based on the assumption that decreases in working hours were borne entirely and comprehensively by a group of full-time workers, while the rest of the workers experienced no reduction in working hours

According to the source, the figures should not be interpreted as number of jobs lost or actual increase in unemployment,

A benchmark of working hours before the pandemic was used to compute the FTEs of working hours percentage-drops.

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