Department of Labor Secretary Edith DeLeon Guerrero said last week a prevailing wage survey for the CNMI would be out shortly as well as a behavioral survey conducted through the local hospital revealing a 9.80percent unemployment rate in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
DeLeon Guerrero was responding to various questions on labor and immigration in the CNMI.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working on the next prevailing wage survey. The secretary of Commerce is already putting out the plans for that. They just finished a behavioral survey for the hospital,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune learned the preliminary findings of the this CNMI Behavioral Health Survey was shared in the Gov. Ralph DLG Torres\u2019 position paper submitted to federal government counterparts as part of \u201cSection 902\u201d talks last month.<\/p>\n
The 9.8-percent unemployment comes from a total labor force of 24,109.<\/p>\n
The Labor secretary said part of the prevailing wage survey\u2014to be issued by the Department of Commerce\u2014would embrace a workforce assessment survey as well.<\/p>\n
The behavioral survey found an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo look at all the statistical analyses\u2014and this latest one came out at an lower unemployment rate\u2014which is a good thing,\u201d she said, referring to the 2010 Census reported unemployment rate of 11.2 percent and the recent broadband survey\u2019s 11.9 percent.<\/p>\n
She said on her insistence, a workforce assessment component was inserted into the behavioral survey to capture workforce information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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