Labour Force Survey in Angola

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Labour Force Survey in Angola

• Workshop on the Production of Statistics on
• Informal Sector Employment and Informal
  Employment

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Purpose of presentation

• Explain the procedure involved in Angola LFS to
  collected data on
• Employment in the informal sector
• Informal employment.
• Measurement of womens work

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What is the Angola LFS

• It is a household survey.
• It is the first LFS at national level in Angola
• It is a survey included in the Program activities
  of Angolan Government for the year 2009

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Goals

• Obtain official statistical data every 6 months
  for policy decision-making
• Monitoring of the Millenuim Development Goals
• Strategic programming key information includes
• Labour Force characteristics in Angola
• Socio-demographics characteristics
• Households Socio-economics conditions

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Coverage

• Geographic coverage National level
• Sampling
• Representative at the, provincial urban and rural
  areas
• Sample size8.240 households
• Provisional timeframe for data collection
  August September 2009

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Questionnaire

• Includes 4 Modules
• A. Geographic Information
• B. Sócio Demographics Characteristics
• C. Education and Professional Training
• D. Employment

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Field Work

• Field team composition
• 1 Field Supervisor
• 1 Cartographer
• 1 Questionnaire Reviewer
• 4 Enumerators
• 1 Driver

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Field Work

• Field team composition
• One team will cover 1 province with exception to
  Luanda where 2 team will operate.

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Data Processing and Analysis

• Data entry throug
• CsPro Application
• Data analysis by
• SPSS

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Data Processing (DP)

• DP team composition
• 2 Supervisors
• 14 Data entry operators
• 2 Filing/Archiving assistants

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One Expert during a week

• From June 27th to July 4th
• Expert Martha Mayer
• UNSD Project Improving Gender Statistics on
  Employment
• Objective To provide direct techinical
  assistance to the NSO of Angola (INE)
• Statistics on womens and mens participation in
  the informal sector and informal employment
• Revision of the questionnaire and draft of
  additional questions
• Revision of the tables for dessimination gender
  and informal employment and informal sector
  issues.

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15 th ICLS Informal sector concept

• Informal sector units engaged in production of
  goods or services.
• Primary objectives generation of employment and
  incomes for persons concerned.
• Characteristics low level of organisation
  little or no division between labour and capital
  as factors of productions small scale labour
  relations (if any) based on casual employment,
  kinship, or personal/social relations rather than
  contracts with formal guarantees

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Informal Sector

• Questions to capture informal sector included in
  the Angola LFS
• Does the establishment, instituition, organism
  where the (Name) works in main job have a
  trading licence?
• Yes
• No
• Dont know
• How many employees are working in main job?
• Less than 5
• 5 -10
• 11 20
• 21 50
• 51 100
• More than 100
• Dont know

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Informal Sector

• Questions to capture informal sector included in
  the Angola LFS
• Does the (Name) in main job work for?
• Owner account worker without employee
• Owner account worker with employee
• Public adminitration
• Public establishement
• Private sector
• Cooperative sector
• International organism
• Church and other associations
• Unpaid family worker
• People/private residence

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Informal Sector

• Questions to capture informal sector included in
  the Angola LFS
• In main job, are you working as
• Permanent worker
• Temporary worker
• Seasonal worker
• Casual worker
• Where, in main job, the (Name) works?
• In the owners home
• Private residence
• In street, via publica
• In the farm
• Market, fair
• Other places

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Informal Sector

• Questions to capture informal sector included in
  the Angola LFS
• Does the (Name) have formal employment contract?
• Yes
• No
• Dont know
• What kind of formal employment contract the
  (Name) has?
• Permanent
• Temporary
• Does your employer or you contribute to any
  pension/retirement fund?
• Yes
• No
• Dont know

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Informal employment

• Questions to capture informal employment
  included in the Angola LFS
• In this week from ____/___/____ to
  ____/____/____ did you any work for your
  household consuption without salary, even if it
  was for only one hour?
• (examples commercial farming, help to
  sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals,
  etc.)

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15th ICLS Definition of employment in the
informal sector

• All jobs in informal sector enterprises, or all
  persons who, during a given reference period,
  were employed in at least one informal sector
  enterprise, irrespective of their status in
  employment and whether it was their main or a
  secondary job.

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Informal employment

• Questions to capture informal employment
  included in the Angola LFS
• Does the (Name) in main job work for?
• Owner account worker without employee
• Owner account worker with employee
• Public adminitration
• Public establishement
• Private sector
• Cooperative sector
• International organism
• Church and other associations
• Unpaid family worker
• People/private residence

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Informal employment

• Questions to capture informal employment
  included in the Angola LFS
• In main job, are you working as
• Permanent worker
• Temporary worker
• Seasonal worker
• Casual worker
• Does the (Name) have formal employment contract?
• Yes
• No
• Dont know

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Gender Issues

• To improve measurement of women
  employment, questions  were added in order to
  detect women activities that  may not be
  perceived as work.
• In this week from ____/___/____ to
  ____/____/____ did you any work for your
  household consuption without salary, even if it
  was for only one hour?
• (examples commercial farming, help to
  sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals,
  etc.)
• In this week from ____/___/____ to ___/__/___
  did you any work without salary, even if it was
  for only one hour?
• (examples prepare food at home to sell,
  drinking, cakes, commercial farming, help to sell
  things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)

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Some Indicators to be Published
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