The rate for adult men and adult women (20 years and over) was 7.3 and 7.2 percent respectively.

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For adult men, the unemployment rate was 6.9%, and 7% for women.

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By 1990 the employment to population ratio for adult men had regained about half of the losses incurred during the recession and the unemployment rate had fallen to 7.1%.

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It also operates a centre for homeless people providing year-round supported accommodation for 20 adult men.

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Such men, most of whom have been professional soldiers for all of their adult lives, are unlikely to have taken kindly to the Taliban's demands that they surrender their weapons.

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Similarly, the total adult literacy rate increased from a low of approximately 61 per cent (76 per cent for men and 46 per cent for women) in 1998 to 74 per cent (85 per cent for men and 64 per cent for women) as of 2008.

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