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Labour Force Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013
Reference ID
NAM_2013_LFS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Namibia Statistics Agency
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 29, 2016
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
NAM_2013_LFS_v01_M
Title
Labour Force Survey 2013
Country
Name Country code
Namibia NAM
Study type
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Series Information
The first full-scale Labor Force Survey (LFS) in Namibia was carried out in 1997 under the National Household Survey Program that was launched after the government endorsed the Five Year Plan of Development of Statistics in Namibia in 1993. Since then five Labor Force Surveys have been conducted in the country at more or less regular intervals of every four years. This survey was conducted only one year after the previous survey in 2012.
Abstract
The Namibia Labor Force Survey (LFS) 2013 was conducted with the objective of generating “timely collection and release of key socio-economic indicators for assessment of labor market conditions in Namibia.” The Labor Force Survey provided basic findings and indicators that were rising in order to promote understanding of the labor market situation prevailing in the country since 2012.
The survey covered all aspects of people's work including the education and training needed to equip them for work, the jobs themselves, the job search for those out of work and the income and benefits from work.
The wide range of employment data collected in this survey was intended to be of assistance to the Government of the Republic of Namibia as it attempts to monitor both the implementation of various national plans as well as Namibia's progress towards the attainment of national goals that are labor-related as expressed in Vision 2030. The data collection for the survey started in September 2013 and it covered 33,744 randomly selected households. The survey was carried out by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) and it plans to continue to conduct the LFS on an annual basis going forward. The main objectives of the survey include:

1. Basic information on the size and structure of the country's work force.
2. Basic information on the size of the informal economy.
3. Basic elements for measuring the labor supply and the extent to which the available human resources are utilized in the production process of the economy.
4. A prospective basis for projections of the economically active population and its components for socio-economic planning.
5. A basis for research in many areas ranging from testing labor market segmentation theories to formulating demographic models.
6. To the public, it provides information on the employment situation of the country; when disaggregated by geographic area, the data may provide information on the situation in regional markets and on the number of persons employed in specific occupational categories.
7. To the business community, it provides useful indicators on the future course of the economy.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
- Individuals
- Households

Version

Version Description
v01
Version Date
2013-09-30

Scope

Notes
The survey covered the following topics:
- Field administrative information
- Dwelling type
- Household income
- Housing conditions
- Employers
- Current job
- Previous job
- Hours worked
- Second main job/business
- Employment status
- Unemployment
- Number of domestic workers
- Education levels

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Namibia Statistics Agency Government of Namibia
Producers
Name Role
International Labour Organisation Technical assistance
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
Government of the Republic of Namibia GovNAM

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The target population of the Labor Force Survey 2013 were members of private households in Namibia. The population living in institutions such as hospitals, hostels, police barracks and prisons was not covered in the survey. However private households within institutional settings were covered, such as teacher's houses on school premises.
The sample design for the LFS 2013 was a stratified two-stage probability sample, where the first stage units were geographical areas designated as the Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) and the second stage units were the households. Up-to-date listings of households in the selected PSU was prepared during the field work, and 18 households were selected in each PSU using systematic sampling.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2013-09-30 2013-10-13
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Namibia Statistics Agency NSA Government of Namibia

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
The World Bank Microdata Library The World Bank microdata@worldbank.org Link
Citation requirements
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:

Namibia Statistics Agency, Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2013. Ref. NAM_2013_LFS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].

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_2013_LFS_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
Date of Metadata Production
2015-10-13
DDI Document version
Version 01 (October 2015)
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