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Annual Employment Survey 1990

Sri Lanka, 1990
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LKA_1990_EMS_v01_M
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Statistics Division, Department of Labour
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    Survey ID number

    LKA_1990_EMS_v01_M

    Title

    Annual Employment Survey 1990

    Country
    Name Country code
    Sri Lanka LKA
    Study type

    Enterprise Survey [en/oth]

    Series Information

    This is the 16th survey in the series of Annual Employment Surveys conducted by the Statistics Division of the Department of Labour. The First Survey of this series had been conducted in 1971. The main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organised sector establishments in the country. The survey covers establishments with five or more paid employees in the private sector and also semi-government institutions in the public sector.

    Abstract

    The Annual Employment Survey of Sri Lanka conducted by the Department of Labour has been designed to measure the levels and trends of the private sector and semi-government sector employment of the country over a period of time.
    The main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organised sector establishments of the country

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    The survey covers establishments in both Public and Private sectors.

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version for internal use of the Department of Labour.

    Version Date

    2008-06-11

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of EMS 1990 includes the following key sections:-

      Establishment particulars
                       - Name of establishment
                       - Location and full address
                       - Telephone number
                       - District of assistant commissioner of labour
                       - Revenue district
                       - DS division
                       - MC/UC area
                       - Telephone number and address of head office
                       - Nature of economic activity
    
      Classification of employees (Sri Lankan and Non Sri Lankan employees)
                       - Number of permanant employees
                       - Number of temporary employees
                       - Number of casual employees
                       - Number of learners and apprentices
    
      Details of occupational categories
                       - Number of men and women in administrative & managerial category (Adults/Under 18 years)
                       - Number of men and women in professional/technical and related category (Adults/Under 18 years)
                       - Number of men and women in clerical and related category (Adults/Under 18 years)
                       - Number of men and women in sales workers category (Adults/Under 18 years)
                       - Number of men and women in supervisor and foremen category (Adults/Under 18 years) 
                       - Number of men and women in skilled and semi-skilled category (Adults/Under 18 years)
                       - Number of men and women in unskilled category (Adults/Under 18 years)
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    labour relations/conflict [3.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Although this is a national level survey, coverage of Nothern and Estern provinces was not at a sufficient level of response due to the prevailing situation in this area.

    The coverage was also limited because of the fact that there was no complete list of establishments for the whole country at the time of the survey.

    Universe

    The survey covered establishments with five or more paid employees in private sector and also semi-government institutions in public sector.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Statistics Division, Department of Labour Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    Goverment of Sri Lanka

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    A complete list of establishments ( survey frame ) was available at the time of the first survey started in 1971. This list was compiled along with the list of buildings in the country prepared for the Census of Population and Housing 1971. There were about 22,500 establishments with 5 or more paid employees and thereafter this survey frame was updated annually, taking new registrations from the Employees Provident Fund lists.

    Construction of indices:
    Index numbers of employment are calculated with 1971 as the base year, and using the link relative method. Indices are computed for each major industry division,

    Weighting of sample results:
    The employment estimates are not weighted

    Adjustments:
    Non response : there are no adjustments for non response
    Other bias : no adjustments have been made for any other bias.
    Use of bench mark data : none
    Seasonal variations : not relevant

    Indicators of reliability of the estimates :
    Coverage of the sampling frame : coverage is limited, as there is no complete list of establishments for the whole country.
    Sampling error/Sampling variance : not relevant
    Non response rate :

    Non sampling errors : the main known source of bias is the limited coverage of the survey due to the lack of a complete list of establishments for the whole country.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    The coverage of the survey was badly affected due to the limiting factors such as the non availability of a complete list of establishments for the whole country and the nature of the method of data collection (postal survey method).

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaire used in the Annual Employemnet Survey consists of three main parts.

    They are :

    1. Establishment particulars
    2. Classification of employees
    3. Occupational category

    The questionnaire was printed in Sinhala, Tamil and English.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1990-07-01 1990-07-31
    Supervision

    Two Statistical officers were engaged in the supervision activities pertaining to sending and receiving the questionnaires, coding and tabulation of data.

    Data Collection Notes
    1. Schedules were posted in the months of July/August.
    2. Reminders were sent to the non-responding eastblishments in September
    3. Parallel to the postal questionnaire, DCS officers visited the non-reponding institutions to collect data.
    4. The data collection procedure continued till December.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    An edit program was run to edit the raw data files.

    Depending on the absence or presence of errors, the records in the raw data file were seperated into an error free file and a rejects file respectively. From the rejects file, a error report was generated indicating the reason for rejection of each record. The errors were checked and manually corrected on the report by referring to the questionnaire. Based on the corrected report, error records were updated by data entry operators.

    The edit program was run again to edit the rejects file and the error free records were added to the error free file. If the rejects file was not empty the edit process was repeated.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL
    Commsioner General of Labour Department of Labour www.labourdept.gov.lk
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.
    Access conditions

    Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.

    Citation requirements

    "Department of Labour, Annual Employment Survey 1990, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset ( June 2008 )"

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The Department of Labour bears no responsibilty for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of data.

    Copyright

    (C) 2008, Department of Labour

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Deputy Director Labour Statistics Division labourst@sltnet.lk www.labourdept.gov.lk
    Microdata Library World Bank microdatalib@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_LKA_1990_EMS_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Department of Labour Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower Data Collection
    Date of Metadata Production

    2008-06-12

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 ( June 2008 ).
    Version 2.0 (August, 2013).DDI and ID numbers edited by World Bank for World Bank Microdata Library.

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