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That graph above looks like the graph for the unemployment rate, i.e. unemployed to active youth population.

It says nothing about employment.

The number in your graph is the ratio of the number on the right column (unemployment to total population) to the sum of the numbers on the left and the right column (employment to total population + unemployment to total population = active population to total population)

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 07:37:22 AM EST
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Ah, they do indeed look roughly to be the same numbers, at least for France and the UK.  Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not sure I understand your second point, though:  It says nothing about employment.

I am probably missing something very basic here, but does it not say that the active youth employment rate in U.K. is 88% while in France it is 78%?

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by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:00:22 AM EST
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It says nothing about employment means that you're missing the information that 55% of UK youth v. 30% of Franch youth are actually employed.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:04:54 AM EST
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Got it.  Thanks.

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by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:09:51 AM EST
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