WP 92 - An overview of women's work and employment in Azerbaijan

M. van Klaveren, K.G. Tijdens, M. Hughie-Williams and N.E. Ramos Martin

Table 10 shows the more detailed distribution of educational levels for the female labour force by age
group.

Table 10. Female labour force by age group (incl. unemployed) and highest level of education completed, Azerbaijan, 2008
ISCED	X-1	2	3	4	5-6	total	x 1,000	rating
15-19	_______1	________14	________82	__________3	_________0	100%	________97	2.87
20-24	__________0	__________3	________69	________17	_________11	100%	_______212	3.36
25-29	__________0	_________2	________56	________15	________27	100%	_______271	3.67
30-34	__________0	________1	________62	________12	________25	100%	_______297	3.61
35-39	__________0	_________2	________56	_________19	________23	100%	_______272	3.63
40-44	__________0	__________3	________68	________14	________15	100%	_______315	3.41
45-49	__________0	_________2	________64	________17	________16	100%	_______284	3.44
50-54	__________0	_________4	________64	________15	________17	100%	_______200	3.45
55-59	_______1	_________2	________58	________22	________17	100%	_________81	3.52
60-64	_______7	________13	________40	________22	________18	100%	________49	3.31
65+	_________16	__________9	________38	________12	________24	100%	________33	3.16
Total	__________0	_________4	_________61	________15	________20	100%	2,112	3.51

Source: authors’calculations on ILO Laborsta, Table 1B

It turns out that the women 25-29 of age were highest educated (a rating, as eludicated above, of
3.67), followed by the 35-39 of age (3.63) and those aged 30-34 (3.61). In all three groups, over 35% had a
completed education at ISCED level 4 or higher, and 23-27% even were educated at the combined highest
ISCED levels 5-6. Jointly, 21% of the 15-29-year-olds, our target group, was educated at level 5-6, and 11%
at level 4, though of course part of this group was still in education. As the ratings show not only the cohort
from 60 of age onwards but also the middle-aged group, women aged 40-54, turned out to be relatively low
educated.

We can now produce an estimate of the size of the target group of the DECISIONS FOR LIFE project
for Azerbaijan, the girls and young women aged 15-29, working in urban areas in commercial services -- that
is, wholesale and retail as well as commercial services more narrowly defined, like finance and restaurants
and hotels. The total size of the female labour force aged 15-29 in Azerbaijan can be estimated at 580,000.
Given an urbanisation rate of 52%, about 300,000 lived and worked in urban areas. Of this 300,000, about
30%¹⁰ or approximately 90,000 girls and young women can be estimated to belong to our target group as
they worked in commercial services. A growing share of them, roughly to be estimated at about 40% or
36,000, may currently work outside paid employment. Some 30,000 to 40,000 (depending on the economic
conditions) girls and young women will enter into commercial services employment in the next five years.

10 We calculate with a 4%points overrepresentation of girls and young women aged 15-29 in commercial services compared to
women over age 29.

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