Labour Force Survey in Angola

Workshop on the Production of Statistics on Informal Sector Employment and Informal Employment Labour Force Survey in Angola Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania 28 September – 2 October 2009

Purpose of presentation • Explain the procedure involved in Angola LFS to collected data on: • Employment in the informal sector • Informal employment. • Measurement of women´s work

What is the Angola LFS • It is a household survey. • It is the first LFS at national level in Angola • It is a survey included in the Program activities of Angolan Government for the year 2009

Goals Obtain official statistical data every 6 months for policy decision-making; Monitoring of the Millenuim Development Goals Strategic programming key information includes: • Labour Force characteristics in Angola; • Socio-demographics characteristics; • Households Socio-economics conditions

Coverage Geographic coverage: National level Sampling: • Representative at the, provincial urban and rural areas • Sample size:8.240 households • Provisional timeframe for data collection: August – September 2009

Questionnaire • Includes 4 Modules: • A. Geographic Information • B. Sócio – Demographics Characteristics • C. Education and Professional Training • D. Employment

Field Work Field team composition: • 1 Field Supervisor • 1 Cartographer • 1 Questionnaire Reviewer • 4 Enumerators • 1 Driver

Field Work Field team composition: • One team will cover 1 province with exception to Luanda where 2 team will operate.

Data Processing and Analysis • Data entry throug: • CsPro Application • Data analysis by: • SPSS

Data Processing (DP) • DP team composition: • 2 Supervisors • 14 Data entry operators • 2 Filing/Archiving assistants

One Expert during a week • From June 27th to July 4th • Expert: Martha Mayer • UNSD Project: Improving Gender Statistics on Employment • Objective: To provide direct techinical assistance to the NSO of Angola (INE) • Statistics on women´s and men´s participation in the informal sector and informal employment; • Revision of the questionnaire and draft of additional questions; • Revision of the tables for dessimination: gender and informal; employment and informal sector issues.

15 th ICLS: Informal sector concept • Informal sector: units engaged in production of goods or services. • Primary objectives: generation of employment and incomes for persons concerned. • Characteristics: low level of organisation; little or no division between labour and capital as factors of productions; small scale; labour relations (if any) based on casual employment, kinship, or personal/social relations rather than contracts with formal guarantees

Informal Sector • Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS • Does the establishment, instituition, organism where the (Name) works in main job have a trading licence? • Yes • No • Don´t know • How many employees are working in main job? • Less than 5 • 5 -10 • 11 – 20 • 21 – 50 • 51 – 100 • More than 100 • Don´t know

Informal Sector • Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS • Does the (Name) in main job work for? • Owner account worker without employee • Owner account worker with employee • Public adminitration • Public establishement • Private sector • Cooperative sector • International organism • Church and other associations • Unpaid family worker • People/private residence

Informal Sector • Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS • In main job, are you working as: • Permanent worker • Temporary worker • Seasonal worker • Casual worker • Where, in main job, the (Name) works? • In the owner´s home • Private residence • In street, via publica • In the farm • Market, fair • Other places

Informal Sector • Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS • Does the (Name) have formal employment contract? • Yes • No • Don´t know • What kind of formal employment contract the (Name) has? • Permanent • Temporary • Does your employer or you contribute to any pension/retirement fund? • Yes • No • Don´t know

Informal employment • Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS • In this week from ____/___/____ to ____/____/____ did you any work for your household consuption without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)

15th ICLS: Definition of employment in the informal sector • All jobs in informal sector enterprises, or all persons who, during a given reference period, were employed in at least one informal sector enterprise, irrespective of their status in employment and whether it was their main or a secondary job.

Informal employment • Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS • Does the (Name) in main job work for? • Owner account worker without employee • Owner account worker with employee • Public adminitration • Public establishement • Private sector • Cooperative sector • International organism • Church and other associations • Unpaid family worker • People/private residence

Informal employment • Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS • In main job, are you working as: • Permanent worker • Temporary worker • Seasonal worker • Casual worker • Does the (Name) have formal employment contract? • Yes • No • Don´t know

Gender Issues • To improve measurement of women employment, questions were added in order to detect women activities that may not be perceived as work. • In this week from ____/___/____ to ____/____/____ did you any work for your household consuption without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.) • In this week from ____/___/____ to ___/__/___ did you any work without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: prepare food at home to sell, drinking, cakes, commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)

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Labour Force Survey in Angola