Labour Force Survey 2006-2007

The current survey conducted a questionnaire of 9 chapters and 159 questions. Adding two more chapters and 36 more questions in the questionnaire derived from the needs which emerged in midst of analysing the data of the 1st survey to correlate the employment especially child activities with the household social and economic variables and elicit the causes of employment. Hence, in addition, the data and variables on migration, education and training and informal employment have been estimated. The second survey excels the previous one by additional data as mentioned before and wider sample frame which allows estimating the data by aimags.

In pursuance with the survey objectives, the questionnaire has been designed to collect the following data by current and usual status:

1. Household social and economic characteristics (housing type, ownership, energy, fuel, water supply, livestock and land property)

2.Democraphic characteristics(relationship to household head, sex, birthdate, school attendance, highest grade achieved, literacy, marital status, disability, cause for disability)

3.Activity status in the last seven days (economic and non-economic activities, time spent on these activities, economic activity and economically inactive status, primary and secondary employment, sector of employment of enterprises, employment status by occupational category, frequency of payment in primary occupation, amount of wages and payment)

4. Unemployment (available for Availability for more work (availability or unavailability for more work, reasons, steps to find more work)

5.work, reason for economically inactive status, time spent on finding work, expected kind of work, expected daily and monthly wage, whether being registered or not with employment and welfare agency, period of registration, whether having looked for work in the last 30 days, steps taken to look for work, reason for not looking for work, duration of unemployment)

6.Activity status in the last 12 months(usual economic activity status, primary and secondary occupations in the last 12 months, employment status by occupational category, economic sector to which the employer belong, duration of unemployment, steps to find work, average wage by primary and secondary employment in the last 12 months)

7. Past employment record (past employment and occupation by industry and sector to which the employer belonged, employment status, duration of employment in last occupation, last date worked, main reason for leaving the last job, main source of income support during the period of unemployment)

8.Child activities of 5-17 ages (main types of chores performed in household, current school attendance, reasons for not attending school at full time, participation in household economic activity, age at which the child began to work, reasons for participation in economic activity, whether the child engaged in any work outside the household, whether the child satisfied with work conditions, whether the child's occupation is mentally and physically stressful, whether the child works during evenings and nights, frequency of working in evenings and nights, whether the child fell sick or was injured because of work, what sickness and injuries had, main items on which the child's earnings are spent on, the number of free hours daily available for the child).