Urban Labour Force Survey 2009
Uganda, 2009
Identification
UGA_2009_ULFS_v01_M
Urban Labour Force Survey 2009
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Uganda | UGA |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
The Urban Labour Force Survey 2009 is the first fully fledged labour survey to be conducted in the country and it was restricted to the whole of Kampala City and the adjacent parts of Mukono and Wakiso districts.
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social development implemented a household based Urban Labour Force Survey (ULFS) in 2009. The need to have detailed and updated information on the Labour Market necessitated the undertaking of this survey. The survey was undertaken in “greater Kampala” area comprising of Kampala district and parts of Wakiso and Mukono districts. The ULFS was specifically designed to provide key indicators of the labour market such as unemployment rates, underemployment rates, informal employment, employment in the informal sector, hours of work, labour under utilization etc. During the design of the survey considerable technical assistance was received from the World Bank GDDS project.
The specific objectives of the Urban Labour Force Survey 2009 were:
(i) To determine the size, composition and distribution of the Labour Force in “greater Kampala” area;
(ii) To determine the level of unemployment, under employment, informal employment, employment in the informal sector and related labour market indicators in the survey area;
(iii) To determine the participation of special groups of the population especially women and youths in the labour force in the study area.
Sample survey data [ssd]
The Urban Labour Force Survey 2009 had the following units of analysis: individuals and households.
Scope
The scope of the Urban Labour Force Survey includes: Characteristics of the study population, labour force, unemployment and underemployment, informal sector and informal employment, earnings of paid employees, women in employment, involvement of children in work and schooling and population not in the labour force.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| TRADE, INDUSTRY AND MARKETS [2] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| EDUCATION [6] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
The survey was undertaken in “greater Kampala” area comprising of Kampala district and parts of Wakiso and Mukono districts.
The survey covered all the working age population aged 14-64 years resident in the household, and all the population below and above the working age.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development | Government of Uganda | Provided technical assistance |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Uganda | Financing of the survey |
| Department for International Development | Financing of the survey |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Respondents | Communities | Provided the required information |
Sampling
For the Urban labour force Survey, a two-stage stratified random sampling design was used. A total of 100 Enumeration Areas (EAs) was deemed sufficient to enable generate reliable estimates for both Kampala district (70 EAs) and other urban (30 EAs). A list of EAs and the corresponding number of households in each EA according to the 2002 population and housing Census was used and Enumeration Areas were selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS). The number of households in each EA taken as a measure of size.
The interviewers compiled an updated list of the households in the selected enumeration areas. From the household list of each EAs, 10 households were randomly selected and interviewed.
The overall response rate was 76 percent which was good enough considering the problems of collecting data in urban areas especially Kampala. The responses in the other urban areas were higher than that of Kampala.
Sample weights were calculated and available in data files "SEC1A_&_1B".
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2009-05 | 2009-08 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development |
Two field teams were constituted with each team having a supervisor and three other data collectors. The Supervisor played a dual role of being the overall leader and field editor for the exercise. To help in tracing the enumeration areas, maps were provided to the supervisors and they were tasked to locate the Enumeration Area with the help of a member of an LC1 executive of that Local Council area where the EA was located. In total 2 supervisors, 6 Enumerators and 5 listers were used in the field activities.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | www.ubos.org | ubos@ubos.org |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed by Article 19 of The Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act, 1998. Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor. |
The dataset is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:
1.The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
2.The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
3.No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, or among data from Uganda Bureau of Statistics and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.
5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from Uganda Bureau of Statistics will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
7. The original collector of the data, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Urban Labour Force Survey (ULFS 2009), Version 1.1 of the public use dataset (March 2010), provided by the Uganda National Data Archive. www.ubos.org/nada.
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the Uganda Bureau of Statistics and the relevant funding agency(ies) bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | ubos@ubos.org | www.ubos.org |
Metadata production
DDI_UGA_2009_ULFS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | Documentation of the survey/census |
| Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century | World Bank | Review of the documentation |
2010-06-24
Metadata version
Version 01: Adopted from "DDI-UGA-UBOS-ULFS-2009-v01" DDI that was done by metadata producers mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.