Labour Force Survey 2012

Namibia, 2012

Namibia Statistics Agency

Identification

Survey ID Number

NAM_2012_LFS_v01_M_v01_A_PUF

Title

Labour Force Survey 2012

Country

Name	Country code
Namibia	NAM

Study type

Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]

Abstract

The Namibia Labour Force Survey (NLFS) is a household-based sample survey. Namibia's first Labour Force Survey was conducted in 1997, and the survey has been conducted every 4 years since then, by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MoLSW). The NLFS 2012 is the first Labour Force Survey conducted by the new Namibia Statistics Agency, established as an autonomous National Statistics Office in 2011. The NLFS 2012 collected labour market data on people aged 15 years and above for the week prior to the survey week (16-27 October 2012).

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

The units of analysis in the survey includes households and individuals

Version

Version Description

v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

Sensitive variables have been replaced with missing. Recoded variables designated _r have been released in place of the sensitve variables

Version Date

2013-04-09

Version Notes

Version 1 of the NLFS was produced in March 2013

Scope

Notes

The survey collected data on the composition of households and particulars of each household member, dwelling type, and number of domestic workers. Person level data collected included education levels, employment status and employment history, working hours and other working conditions, self-employment, unemployment and job-seeking, and income data (individual and household).

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
employment [3.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
unemployment [3.5]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
working conditions [3.6]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The survey had national coverage. The lowest level of geographic aggregation of the data is Region (the 13 regions in the country).

Geographic Unit

Provincial and metropolitan level

Universe

The universe of the survey was all household members. Homeless people and the people who are living in institutions (institutional population) are excluded.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Namibia Statistics Agency	Government of Namibia

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The National Sampling Frame maintained by the NSA is based on the Enumeration Areas (EAs) of the 2011 Population and Housing Census and the households within the EAs. The frame was revised and updated in July 2011. The revised frame now has 6,104 EAs or PSUs. Each PSU consists of between 40 and 120 households. The frame was stratified first by region, and then by urban/rural areas within each region. A probability sample of 506 PSUs was selected proportionately across the regions in the first stage using the probability proportional to size sampling procedure together with systematic sampling. Within each region PSUs were selected randomly to achieve the number allocated for that region. Sample size of households was increased to cater for more reliable estimation at the regional level than in previous labour force surveys. At the field level, 8,906 of 9,108 sampled households were visited and interviewed, resulting in 98% coverage.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2012-10-16	2012-10-27

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collection Notes

A pilot survey to test the the questionnaire as revised after a stakeholders' workshop was done in both rural and urban areas in the three regions of Khomas, Kavango and Ohangewena during September 2012. The pilot survey was intended to test the time the questionnaire would take to complete, as well as how well both enumerators and respondents understood the questionnaire. It was particularly meant to test their understanding of the new questions designed to track subsistence farming and other forms of non-formal employment.

Questionnaires

The survey instrument for the Namibia Labour Force Survey 2012 was a single questionnaire. The questionnaire collected data on the following:

Part A: Field administrative information
Part B: Household composition and particulars of each household member (relationship to household head, age, citizenship, marital status and receipt of government grants)
Part C: (for all persons 6 and above) Education data (schooling status, highest education level, main language)
Part D: (for all persons 8 and above) Employment data (employment status, work activity, non-wage labour, reasons for not working)
Part E: (for all persons 8 and above) Employment data (industry and occupation, place of work, full/part-time employment, self-employment, employment sector, payment in kind, deductions, work in multiple jobs, job-seeking strategies)
Part F: Working hours
Part G: Employment conditions (employers' social security contributions, employment contracts, income and payment rate
Part H: Employers and the self-employed (registration, business accounts, size of workforce, business turnover)
Part I: (for all persons who had not worked in the previous 7 days) The unemployed (job-seeking strategies, reasons for not working, reasons for not looking for work, rediness to work, length of unemployment, occupation and industry of previous employment, support for the unemployed)
Part J: (administered only to the household head/main respondent) Dwelling type, tenure, main/secondary household income source, total household income (last month), employment of domestic workers)
Part K: (completed by the coder/editor/supervisor) Data collection and data entry control information

Data Processing

Data Editing

Data validation included checking for invalid questionnaire numbers, invalid geo-codes, missing data values, incorrect data values, and duplicate questionnaire numbers. Consistency checks involved checking of validated records against logical rules and subsequent editing where necessary. Industies and occupations were also coded during data editing.

Access policy

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL
Namibia Statistics Agency	Government of Namibia	http://www.nsa.org.nm

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
The World Bank Microdata Library	The World Bank	microdata@worldbank.org	http://microdata.worldbank.org

Access conditions

Public use files, accessible to all

Citation requirements

Namibia Statistics Agency. Namibia Labour Force Survey 2012 [dataset]. Version 1. Windhoek: Namibia Statistics Agency [producer and distributor], 2013.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_NAM_2012_LFS_v01_M_v01_A_PUF

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Namibia Statistics Agency	NSA	Government of Namibia	Metadata Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2013-04-03

DDI Document version

Version 2:

Reflecting that this is the Public Release version of the data.