These surveys mainly provide data on the main characteristics of employed and unemployed urban population of the country, i.e. the labour force engaged or available to be engaged in the production of economic goods and services and its distribution in the various sectors of the economy during the reference period. In addition, data on economic activities of children were collected to measure child labour in urban areas. For this purpose, the former minimum age limit 10 years is lowered down to 5 years since May 2009. Therefore, the data is collected from those persons aged five years and above. However, for the purpose of measuring the economic activity status based on Ethiopian situation, the lower age limit is fixed to ten years. This is because children in rural and urban areas are expected to engage at work in their early age such as collection of fire wood, looking after cattle, shoeshine, street vendor, petty trading…etc. Thus, the March 2011 UEUS analytical report provides mainly information on the economic activities of the population aged ten years and above. Ethiopia being among the African countries with relatively fast growing population coupled with developing economies, proper management and efficient utilization of its work force is essential. In this respect, the capacity of the economy in absorbing the potential labour force needs to be monitored regularly, and appropriate employment policy should consequently be adopted. Thus, the level of employment and unemployment situation of the country is widely used as overall indicator in evaluating the current performance of the economy. The analysis of the employment status is therefore essential both in tackling present difficulties and foreseeing future challenges. For this purpose, the following key indicators such as activity rate, employment to population ratio, percentage share of informal employment, unemployment rate...etc are presented in this analytical report . Furthermore, the trends and changes of labour force situations in urban areas are also presented by making comparison the result of the March 2011 survey with the previous survey.