Screenshot from an interactive mapping tool from OECD Regional Statistics. While you can look at any region I choose North America. The color indicates the GDP per capita: blue is low income while red is high income. The graph on the right is comparing % of population with high school education vs unemployment. (The red circle, indicating very high income, belongs to Washington DC)
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[tags]United States, OECD, Mexico, Canada[/tags]
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I am a little confused about the unemployment vs education graph. Is it saying that the lower the education level, the lower the unemployment? It runs counter to what I have always heard.
It seems like the data for Mexico isn’t on the same basis as the data for USA. The unemployment rate is shown as very low for Mexico (1-5%). If you run the employment rate figures, they are 56-65% for Mexico. This doesn’t add up.