Voters' demographic, social profile
Morocco, Politics, 9/28/2002

Over a total of 14,023,604 people officially registered on polling rolls valid for this Friday's elections, 40 percent are women (6,877,900) and the remaining 51 percent are males (7,145,703).

By age break-down, 25 percent of the voters are aged 20 to 30, 27 percent are aged 31 to 40, 21 percent are are aged 41 to 50 years and 27 percent are over 50 year old.

According to academic qualification, 61 percent of voters have no academic training, 16 percent have primary level, 15 percent secondary level and only 7 percent have a high diploma.

Some 6,052,519 of voters are jobless, 1,758,598 are farmers, 1,050,783 work in handicraft, 594,878 are private sector wage-earners and 510,474 are tradesmen, 69,933 have liberal jobs, 3,370,511 have different jobs.

A total of 5,865 candidates, grouped in 1,774 lists presented by 26 political parties and five lists of independent candidates, are vying for the 325 seats in the House of Representatives.

Out of this number, 266 female candidates are running for 30 seats reserved to women in the future house.

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