Labour Force Survey 2006-2007
Pakistan, 2006 - 2007
Identification
PAK_2006_LFS_v01_M
Labour Force Survey 2006-2007
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Pakistan | PAK |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Federal Bureau of Statistics has been carrying out Labour Force Survey (LFS) since 1963. For this purpose, the questionnaire and methodology of the survey have been undergoing pertinent improvements to keep current with best practices. The survey’s questionnaire was revised in 1990 to include probing questions on marginal economic activities, likely to be carried out mostly by women and tend to go unrecorded with conventional questions. The questionnaire was further improved in 1995 to reckon with the size and composition of migration and informal sector. The scope of the survey was extended in 2001-02 to take the stock of occupational safety and health of employed persons. The questionnaire was further articulated for undertaking 1st quarterly LFS 2005-06.
The major aim of the survey is to collect a set of comprehensive statistics on the various dimensions of country’s civilian labour force. As a means to pave the way for skill development, planning, employment generation, assessing the role and importance of the informal sector and, sizing up the volume, characteristics and contours of employment. The broad objectives of the survey are as follows:
- To collect data on the socio-demographic characteristics of the total population i.e. age, sex, marital status, level of education, current enrolment and migration etc;
- To acquire current information on the dimensions of Pakistan’s labour force; i.e. number of persons employed, unemployed, and underemployed or out of labour market;
- To gather descriptive facts on the engagement in major occupational trades and the nature of work undertaken by the institution/organization;
- To profile statistics on employment status of the individuals, i.e. whether they are employers, own account workers, unpaid family workers or paid employees (regular/casual);
- To classify non-agricultural enterprises employing household member(s) as formal and informal;
- To quantify the hours worked at main/subsidiary occupations;
- To provide data on wages and mode of payment for paid employees;
- To quantify occupational health and safety of employed persons by causes, type of injuries/diseases occurred, parts of body injured, type of treatment received and period of absence from work; and
- To collect data on the characteristics of unemployed persons i.e. age, sex, level of education, previous experience if any, occupation, industry, employment status related to previous job, waiting time invested in the quest for work, their availability for work and expectations for future employment.
Reference period is week i.e. seven days before the date of enumeration.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Household
- Individual
- Household member age 10 years and over
Scope
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2006-07 provides data on
(a) age, sex, marital status, literacy,level of education and migration of the population,
(b) dimensions of country’s labour force, viz
(i) employed labour force classified by industry, formal & informal sectors, occupation, employment status, hours worked and level of education,
(ii) occupational safety and health information of the employed persons, and
(iii) unemployed labour by level of education and previous experience.
Coverage
The survey covers all urban and rural areas of the four provinces of Pakistan defined as such by 1998 Population Census, excluding Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and military restricted areas. The population of excluded areas constitutes about 2% of the total population.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) | Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Pakistan | Funding the study |
Sampling
Sampling Frame: Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) has developed its own sampling frame for urban areas. Each city/town is divided into a number of enumeration blocks. Each enumeration block is based on 200 to 250 households on the average with well-defined boundaries and maps. The list of enumeration blocks as updated through Economic Census 1999-2000 and the list of villages/mouzas/dehs of 1998 Population Census are taken as sampling frame. Enumeration blocks and villages are considered as Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) from urban and rural domains respectively.
Stratification Plan
- Urban Domain: Karachi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Sialkot, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad are considered as large cities. Each of these cities constitutes a separate stratum, further sub-stratified according to low, middle and high income groups based on the information collected in respect of each enumeration block at the time of demarcation/ updating of urban area sampling frame.
- Remaining Urban Areas: After excluding the population of large cities from the population of respective ex-administrative division, the remaining urban population of exadministrative division from provinces is grouped together to form another stratum called other urban. Thus each ex-division in remaining urban areas in the four provinces constitutes a stratum.
- Rural Domain: Each administrative district in the Punjab, Sindh and NWFP is considered an independent stratum whereas in Balochistan, each ex-administrative division constitutes a stratum.
- Universe: The universe for Labour Force Survey consists of all urban and rural areas of the four provinces of Pakistan defined as such by 1998 Population Census.
Sample Design
Procedure: A stratified two-stage sample design is adopted for the survey.
Selection of primary sampling units (PSUs): Enumeration blocks in urban domain and mouzas/dehs/villages in rural are taken as Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). In the urban domain, sample PSUs from each ultimate stratum/sub-stratum are selected with probability proportional to size (PPS) method of sampling scheme. In urban domain, the number of households in an enumeration block as updated through Economic Census and village population of 1998 Census for rural domain is considered as measure of size.
Selection of secondary sampling units (SSUs): The listed households of sample PSUs are taken as Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs). A specified number of households i.e. 12 from each urban sample PSU, 16 from rural sample PSU are selected with equal probability using systematic sampling technique with a random start.
Sample Size and Its Allocation: Methodologically, a sample of 32864 households is considered appropriate to provide reliable estimates of key labour force characteristics at National/Provincial level. The entire sample of households (SSUs) is drawn from 2327 Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) out of which 1092 are urban and 1235 are rural. As urban population is more heterogeneous therefore, a higher proportion of sample size is allocated to urban domain. As a means to get reliable estimates, a higher proportion of sample is assigned to NWFP and Balochistan in consideration to their smallness. After fixing the sample size at provincial level, further distribution of sample PSUs to different strata in rural and urban domains in each province is made proportionately.
All enumeration Blocks in urban areas and mouzas/dehs/villages in rural areas are enumerated. The number of sample households 32,778 (99.7% of the total sample) enumerated is less than the estimated sample size 32,864 due to non-contact and refusal cases in urban and rural areas.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 2007 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Statistics | Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan |
Soon after data collection, the supervisors edit, check and clean the filled in questionnaires manually for consistency and completeness and refer back to field where necessary.
Data are collected by direct interview method. Generally, the head of household is chosen to provide information about all members of the household. In case of his non-availability at the time of interview, some other informed member of the household down the line is interviewed. The total sample for the year is evenly distributed for enumeration on quarterly basis to offset the effect of seasonal variations. The information collected however relates to the week preceding the date of enumeration.
Data processing
Editing and coding is done at headquarter by the subject matter section. Computer edit checks are applied to get even with errors identified at the stage of data entry. The relevant numerical techniques are used to eliminate erroneous data resulting from mistakes made during coding. The survey records are further edited and rectified through a series of computer processing stages.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Statistics | Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan | http://www.pbs.gov.pk/content/data-dissemination | pbs@pbs.gov.pk |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | It will be ensured that the statistics supplied will not disclose in any way the identity and state of affairs of any individual, firm or institution in strict compliance of the General Statistics Act, 1975. |
a. The user shall provide an undertaking that the data collected from PBS will not be supplied to any other person/organization either free of cost or on payment.
b. The user shall acknowledge the source of data and supply copies of the research work/articles (published/unpublished) to PBS.
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Disclaimer and copyrights
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.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Statistics | Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan | pbs@pbs.gov.pk | www.pbs.gov.pk |
Metadata production
DDI_PAK_2006_LFS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2013-08-28
Metadata version
Version 01 (August 2013)