Labour Force Survey 2010
Bhutan, 2010
Identification
BTN_2010_LFS_v01_M
Labour Force Survey 2010
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Bhutan | BTN |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
The Ministry of Labour and Human Resources has been conducting the Labour Force Survey (LFS) since 1998. Since then, it has become a regular activity of MoLHR. The Department of Employment conducts the Labour Force Survey annually to enable the Ministry to assess the current and emerging labour situation in the country.
Labour Force Survey aims to provide a quantitative framework for the preparation of plans and formulation of policies affecting the labour market.
Specifically, the survey is designed to provide statistics on levels and trends of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and various other socio-economic characteristics. Broadly the objective of the survey is to generate the following information:
· Percentage of economically active population
· Labour force participation rate
· Status of active population in number (employed + unemployed)
· The labour force available in the country by age group, sex, level of education, nationality, marital status, area of residence, by industrial and occupational classification, hours of work.
· The survey also provides information on main and subsidiary economic activities and women's participation in the total labour force. It also reveals the labour situation especially the young generation entering into labour market and unemployment problem.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household member
Version
v02: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
2011-06-22
Scope
- Employment status by age and type of enterprise
- Employment status by completed level of education
- Employment Status by age, sex and area of residence
- Employment status by major economic activity and nature of employment
- Employment status by major economic activity and major occupation
- Employment status by total hours worked
- Employment status by major occupation and total hours worked
- Employment status by employment nature and total hours worked
- Employment status by major economic activity and completed level of education
- Employment status by employment nature and completed level of education
- Employment status by major occupation and employment nature
- Employment status by additional job
- Reasons for working more than 48 hours
- Range of monthly earnings by major occupation
- Unemployment status by age, sex and area of residence
- Economically inactive population
- Population by age, marital status and sex
- Population by completed level of education
- Migration
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Labor Markets | LMIRD | www.molhr.gov.bt |
| Education | World Bank | |
| Primary Education | World Bank | |
| Secondary Education | World Bank | |
| Tertiary Education | World Bank |
Coverage
National Dzongkhags
All citizens of Bhutan in private households. Foreign nationals and those members who were temporarily absent from the households but living in the institutions like school, hostels, army barracks, hospital and prisons were included. Concurrently, the survey excluded those members who were absent from the household for more than six months.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Labour & Human Resources | Royal Government of Bhutan |
| Name |
|---|
| Royal Goverment of Bhutan |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| National Statistical Bureau | Royal Government of Bhutan | Technical Assistance (Development of Sampling Frame) |
| Dzongkhag Administration | Royal Government of Bhutan | Logistics Assistance (Field Operations) |
Sampling
i. Sampling Frame: The sampling frame has been developed by the National Statistics Bureau. Each town in a Dzongkhag has been divided into numerous enumeration blocks. The block for the urban has been demarcated by the Department of Urban and Housing Development, Ministry of Works and Human Settlement. Enumeration blocks for urban and chiwogs for rural have been considered as Primary Sampling Unit (PSUs). The households in both urban and rural were considered as Secondary Sampling Unit (SSUs).
ii. Stratification Plan: Each Dzongkhag is considered as primary stratum the stratifying factors used were the geographical demarcation of the administrative boundaries carried by the Department of Survey & Land Records, Ministry of Agriculture. There were two sub-strata i.e urban and rural.
iii. Sample Design: A stratified two-stage sample design has been adopted for the survey.
a. Selection of primary sampling units (PSUs): The blocks and the chiwogs have been taken as the PSUs in urban and rural respectively. In both the urban and rural areas the blocks and chiwogs were selected with Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) using Circular Systematic Sampling (CSS).
b. Selection of secondary sampling units (SSUs): The households in the sampled blocks and chiwogs were considered as SSUs. A fixed number of sample households have been selected from the selected PSU's by CSS method.
iv. Sample size and its allocation: Considering the availability of resources, the nature of population distribution and the variability of characteristics for which the estimates are to be made, a sample of 12,000 households have been found appropriate to provide reliable estimate of key labour force characteristics. This is also based on the past experience.
For details, refer to Labour Force Report, Page 6.
Out of 12,000 dwellings drawn at random from an estimated population of 47,115 listed households, only 11,719 Households (questionnaires) were fully completed or 281 households were non-respondents , giving 97.7% of completion rate. Non-response is caused due to absence of occupants in the sample house, may be due to total refusal to answer any of the questions and sometimes when the interviewee is incapable to answer.
Survey instrument
The questionnaire used for 2010 Labour Force Survey is the revised form of 2009 Labour Force Survey questionnaire. This had been done by the group from the four Departments and Labour Market Information Division of the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources.
The questionnaire has been pre-tested and reviewed number of times to ensure its precision. The questionnaire comprises two parts, namely, the socio-demographic characteristics and economic characteristics. The economic characteristics is collected only from those persons aged 15 years and above as per the International Labour Organization (ILO) definition of economically active cohort of population.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2010-03 | 2010-04 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Labour Market Information & Research Division | Ministry of Labour & Human Resources |
| National Statistical Bureau | Royal Government of Bhutan |
There were 111 enumerators in the field led by 13 supervisors.
Supervisors are responsible for logistic arrangement to the enumerators. For quality control, supervisors made frequent visits to the field for spot-checking during data collection process.
In detail, the duties of a surpervisor include:
a. General duties:
– Supervising the team's activities in the local area where they are working.
– Coordinating and monitoring the activities of the interviewers at the selected households.
– Monitoring, checking and assessing the quality of the interviewers work, and the quality of the data on collected questionnaires.
– Maintaining contact with headquarters, receiving supervisory visits from headquaters staff, and reporting on the performance of their team.
b. Specific duties:
– Meeting with local officials to explain the purpose of the survey.
– Household listing and selecting the households to be interviewed.
– Providing interviewers with questionnaires.
– Assigning tasks to the team, including the timetabling of appointments with households.
– Supervising the fieldwork.
– Checking that questionnaires have been completed satisfactorily.
– The handing taking of the completed questionnaires should be done towards the end of each day throughout the survey. Further, the supervisors are requested to cross check the filled in questionnaire. If any incomplete information encountered, the concerned enumerator should be sent back for re-enumeration.
Last one week prior to the date of interview has been used as the reference period for work activities.
For maintaining the conformity of survey concepts, definitions and procedure to be used during enumeration, training for duration of 1 week was imparted to the concerned supervisors and enumerators on interviewing techniques and survey procedures to be used during the enumeration.
Data processing
Soon after data collection, the supervisors were made responsible to edit and check the filled in questionnaires for consistency and completeness and referred back to field where necessary. Further coding, manual checking and editing were done at the headquarters by the Labour Market Information Division. Also during data entry in CSPRO, further identified errors were edited by applying computer edit checks, data ranges in numerical values in order to eliminate erroneous data as result of mistakes made during coding. The survey records were edited and corrected through a series of computer processing stages.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director, Department of Employment | Ministry of Labour and Human Resources | www.molhr.gov.bt | doe@molhr.gov.bt |
| LMIRD officials, Depatment of Employment | Ministry of Labour and Human Resources | www.molhr.gov.bt | gwangdhee@gmail.com |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Data obtained in this survey cannot be used for taxation, investigation or law enforcement purposes. |
The dataset has been anonymized and is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:
- The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources.
- The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
- No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources.
- No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by the [National Data Archive], or among data from the [National Data Archive] and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.
- Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
- An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources.
The Ministry of Labour and Human Resources bears no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
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
Example:
Bhutan, Mnistry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR). Bhutan Labour Force Survey 2010. Ref. BTN_2010_LFS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://www.nsb.gov.bt/ndas/index.php/catalog on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources bears no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
(c) 2011, Ministry of Labour & Human Resources
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director, Department of Employment | Ministry of Labour and Human Resources | doe@molhr.gov.bt | www.molhr.gov.bt |
| Labour Market Information & Research Division | Ministry of Labour and Human Resources | gwangdhee@gmail.com | www.molhr.gov.bt |
Metadata production
DDI_BTN_2010_LFS_v02_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Market Information & Research Division | Ministry of Labour and Human Resources | Documentation of the study |
| Accelerated Data Program | International Household Survey Network | Editing for IHSN Survey Catalog |
2011-08-22
Metadata version
Version 1.0 - Ministry of Labour and Human Resources - Original documentation of the study.
Version 2.0 - Edited version by ADP based on Version 1.0 of MoLHR downloaded from http://www.nsb.gov.bt/ndas/index.php/catalog on 12 February 2013.