Need to know language better (professional reasons)

This subjective indicators shows the needs of unemployed persons based on ILO definition or of economically inactive persons who wish to work in terms of acquiring better language skills for professional reasons, i.e. in order to find a suitable job and for better labour market integration.

Among unemployed persons based on ILO definition and economically inactive persons who wish to work, in 2017, 42% said they needed to improve their skills in an official language in order to find suitable work. First-generation persons were the group that expressed the greatest need of improvement (57%). The second or subsequent generations were less affected (38%). This rate did not  differ significantly from that of the population without a migration background (30%).

Unemployed persons based on ILO definition or economically inactive persons who wish to work do not show the same need, from one major region to the other, to improve their skills in an official language in order to find suitable work. These needs are particularly great in Ticino and the Lake Geneva region (64% and 60% respectively). As well as variations observed between the major regions considered, the rates differ depending on the migration status. In most of the major regions, the population with a migration background shows between two and five times greater needs than the population without a migration background. In Lake Geneva region and in Ticino, in contrast, the two population groups show similar rates.