DDI_LKA_2007_EMS_v01_M_WB Department of Census and Statistics Department of Labour 2009-04-30 NADA Version 1.0 ( June 2009 ). Version 2.0 (August, 2013).DDI and ID numbers edited by World Bank for World Bank Microdata Library. Annual Employment Survey 2007 EMS 2007 LKA_2007_EMS_v01_M Statistics Division, Department of Labour (C) 2008, Department of Labour. NADA Goverment of Sri Lanka Deputy Director Microdata Library Enterprise Survey [en/oth] This is the 33rd survey in the series of Annual Employment Surveys conducted by the Statistics Division of the Department of Labour. The First Survey of this series had been conducted in 1971. The main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organized sector establishments in the country. The survey covers establishments with five or more paid employees in the private sector and also semi-government institutions in the public sector v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version for internal DPD use. employment [3.1] labour relations/conflict [3.3] The Annual Employment Survey of Sri Lanka conducted by the Department of Labour has been designed to measure the levels and trends of the private sector and semi-government sector employment of the country over a period of time. The main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organized sector establishments of the country Sri Lanka National coverage Although this is a national level survey, coverage of Northern and Eastern provinces was not at a sufficient level of response due to the prevailing situation in this area. The coverage was also limited because of the fact that there was no complete list of establishments for the whole country at the time of the survey. The survey covers establishments in both Public and Private sectors The survey covered establishments with five or more paid employees in private sector and also semi-government institutions in public sector. Sample survey data [ssd] The scope of EMS 2007 includes the following key sections:- Establishment particulars - Name of establishment - Location and full address - Telephone number - District of assistant commissioner of labour - Revenue district - DS division - MC/UC area - Telephone number and address of head office - Nature of economic activity Classification of employees (Sri Lankan and Non Sri Lankan employees) - Number of permanent employees - Number of temporary employees - Number of casual employees - Number of learners and apprentices Details of occupational categories - Number of men and women in administrative & managerial category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in professional/technical and related category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in clerical and related category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in sales workers category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in supervisor and foremen category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in skilled and semi-skilled category (Adults/Under 18 years) - Number of men and women in unskilled category (Adults/Under 18 years) A complete list of establishments ( survey frame ) was available at the time of the first survey started in 1971. This list was compiled along with the list of buildings in the country prepared for the Census of Population and Housing 1971. There were about 22,500 establishments with 5 or more paid employees and thereafter this survey frame was updated annually, taking new registrations from the Employees Provident Fund lists. Construction of indices: Index numbers of employment are calculated with 1971 as the base year, and using the link relative method. Indices are computed for each major industry division, Weighting of sample results: The employment estimates are not weighted Adjustments: Non response : there are no adjustments for non response Other bias : no adjustments have been made for any other bias. Use of bench mark data : none Seasonal variations : not relevant Indicators of reliability of the estimates : Coverage of the sampling frame : coverage is limited, as there is no complete list of establishments for the whole country. Sampling error/Sampling variance : not relevant Non response rate : Non sampling errors : the main known source of bias is the limited coverage of the survey due to the lack of a complete list of establishments for the whole country The coverage of the survey was badly affected due to the limiting factors such as the non availability of a complete list of establishments for the whole country and the nature of the method of data collection (postal survey method). Mail Questionnaire [mail] The questionnaire used in the Annual Employment Survey consists of three parts. They are : 1. Establishment particulars 2. Classification of employees 3. Occupational category The questionnaire was printed in Sinhala, Tamil and English. 1. Schedules were posted in the months of July/August. 2. Reminders were sent to the non-responding establishments in September 3. Parallel to the postal questionnaire, DCS officers visited the non-responding institutions to collect data. 4. The data collection procedure continued till December. Two Statistical officers were engaged in the supervision activities pertaining to sending and receiving the questionnaires, coding and tabulation of data. An edit program was run to edit the raw data files. Depending on the absence or presence of errors, the records in the raw data file were separated into an error free file and a rejects file respectively. From the rejects file, a error report was generated indicating the reason for rejection of each record. The errors were checked and manually corrected on the report by referring to the questionnaire. Based on the corrected report, error records were updated by data entry operators. The edit program was run again to edit the rejects file and the error free records were added to the error free file. If the rejects file was not empty the edit process was repeated. 74.8% of the establishments responded. 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Employment Survey 2007 Data The file contains the data related to the Annual Employment Survey Questionnaire. 0 50 Record Type Record Type Record Type Record Type Record Type Serial Number Serial Number Serial Number Serial Number Serial Number Sector Sector Sector Sector Sector 1 Private 2 Public Area Area Area Area Area Industry Industry Industry Industry Industry Corporation code Corporation code Corporation code Corporation code Corporation code Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Sri Lankan - Casual employees Sri Lankan - Casual employees Sri Lankan - Casual employees Sri Lankan - Casual employees Sri Lankan - Casual employees Sri Lankan - Apperenticet employees Sri Lankan - Apperenticet employees Sri Lankan - Apperenticet employees Sri Lankan - Apperenticet employees Sri Lankan - Apperenticet employees Non Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Non Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Non Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Non Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Non Sri Lankan - Permanant employees Non Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Non Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Non Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Non Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Non Sri Lankan - Temporary employees Non Sri Lankan - Casual employees Non Sri Lankan - Casual employees Non Sri Lankan - Casual employees Non Sri Lankan - Casual employees Non Sri Lankan - Casual employees Non Sri Lankan - Apprentice employees Non Sri Lankan - Apprentice employees Non Sri Lankan - Apprentice employees Non Sri Lankan - Apprentice employees Non Sri Lankan - Apprentice employees Adult Male - Administrative Adult Male - Administrative Adult Male - Administrative Adult Male - Administrative Adult Male - Administrative Adult Female - Administrative Adult Female - 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