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Labor Market Information Systems and Data Analysis

Labor Market Information Systems and Data Analysis. Kathleen Beegle Development Economics Research Group And Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) group World Bank April 7, 2009. Data for labor analysis: what can you do and how can you do it?. Focus on quantitative analysis

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Labor Market Information Systems and Data Analysis

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  1. Labor Market Information Systems and Data Analysis Kathleen Beegle Development Economics Research Group And Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) group World Bank April 7, 2009

  2. Data for labor analysis: what can you do and how can you do it? • Focus on quantitative analysis • Qualitative analysis is another method of analysis which is not part of this discussion • When under-taking new quantitative data collection (and even when doing analysis of secondary analysis), you would probably always do some qualitative analysis. • Focus on data needs for analytical work

  3. Labor data • Many sources of data for labor market analysis. • How/if these data can be used will depend on several factors: • Who is eligible to be included? • census v. survey v. administrative records • Who reports information? • Household head reporting for all individual members • Firm manager reporting on individual staff • What information is reported? • Unpaid family labor • Women’s domestic work • How often is the data collected? • Can it be merged/combined with other data? • LFS combined with rainfall data

  4. Types of data • Population and Housing census • In theory, all residents of the country with limited information (age, sex, education, migration, “main activity”) • Every 10 years • Often source for sampling frame for household surveys • Difficult to get unit-record data but means are often readily available

  5. Types of data • Household survey data • Topical surveys • Household Budget Surveys (HBS), Income and Expenditure Surveys (IES) • Labor Force Surveys (LFS) • ILO SIMPOC surveys (Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour part of IPECL) • Demographic and Health Surveys • Integrated Household Surveys (LSMS, FLS) include income & non-income dimensions of living standards • www.worldbank.org\lsms • www.rand.org\FLS

  6. Types of data • Administrative data (records) • From companies or from governments (local, regional, national) • Firm/enterprise surveys • rru.worldbank.org/EnterpriseSurveys/ • Rural investment climate surveys Non-labor data is also relevant…examples: • Price data (to deflate nominal values) • Infrastructure information (access to markets)

  7. Data producers • National statistical office • policies of access to unit-record data vary • Multi-laterals: ILO, World Bank, IDB • Not systematically public • Researchers • Not systematically public • How to find data: not so easy! • IHHSN • www.internationalsurveynetwork.org/home • WB’s DDP (e.g. Africa Household Survey Data bank)

  8. A “simple” labor question may embed many demands ondata • Single topic surveys may lack breadth of topics (eg: measure of poverty status) • LSMS surveys may lack depth (eg: willingness to co-pay for health insurance, pension contributions for civil servants) • Administrative data: little background information on respondents (eg: education level)

  9. Unemployment & Poverty Nicaragua, 1993

  10. UNE and Poverty: what data would you need? • “ILO” definition of unemployment • Did you work (for at least 1 hour) in the last 7 days • Does this include working as unpaid family labor on the hh farm? • Does this include the wife who worked 2 hours in the hh’s non-farm business? • If no, do you have a regular job (on leave/sick) to which you will return? • If no, have you searched for work in the past 4 weeks? • 3+ questions, asked of all household members. • In low-income countries, you find few who qualify as unemployed

  11. UNE and Poverty: what data would you need? • Poverty status of household (detailed consumption module) • Sufficient sample sizes in each region to generate reliable unemployment statistics

  12. Employment and Poverty Indicators Cambodia 1997

  13. Employment and Poverty: What data would you need? • Poverty status of household • Work status of individual household members, including children under 15 (often missing) • Information on working and number of jobs • wrt to some time period – last week, month year • Wage data • imputed wages for self-employed? • In-kind value of wage payments (housing, food) • Difficult to annualize • CPI to convert price data from nominal to real values (spatial and temporal price data)

  14. Private Rates of Return to Schooling by Level of Education Vietnam 1992/93

  15. RTE: What data would you need? • Sector of work (maybe including second or thirds jobs?) • Wages (real values) • Education level

  16. Time Spent on Activities Ghana 1998-99

  17. Time Use: What data would you need? • Reported time use across distinct sub-categories of activities asked of every individual member of the household • Fetching water and collecting firewood: • does this include waiting time? • does it include walking to the source • What if farming is combined with child-care?

  18. What data would you need? • MDG 3: Share of women in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector • Impact of credit access on entry into self-employment • Ex-post impact of minimum wage legislation • Ex-ante impact of proposed changes changes to pension system

  19. Data analysis of labor issues: Challenges • What if? Posing hypothetical situations to respondents (willingness to pay/contingent valuation) • Reliability of complicated questions on tradeoffs today with future returns • Consistency in definitions across time and space • Relevance of international definitions • Unemployment in SSA v. ILO definition • Impact: Identifying appropriate control groups

  20. Data analysis of labor issues: challenges • Seasonality • Means are deceiving • How to measure labor bottlenecks? • Rare events: Difficult to measure/assess rare events in large-scale LSMS-type surveys • Impact of HIV/AIDS on absenteeism • LM outcomes for disabled • Children involved in dangerous work

  21. Malawi Time Use 2004

  22. Conclusions • Lots of data, but (usually) no one source has it all • Search for your data: good literature review may reveal some ideal data • Be creative. combine data across sources (LSMS with administrative data) • Be realistic about what you can and can’t answer • Pay attention to the details of your data source

  23. Web Source of Information on Household Surveys with Labor Data • LFS • www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=1537 • www.census.gov • www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurvey/lfsurvey.list?p_lang=en • LSMS • www.worldbank.org/lsms • DHS • www.measuredhs.com • MICs • www.unicef.org/statistics/index_24303.html • www.childinfo.org • IES/HBS • www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm • europa.eu.int/estatref/info/sdds/en/hbs/hbs_base.htm • CWIQ • www.worldbank.org/afr/stat

  24. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/lfsurvey/lfsurvey.list?p_lang=en

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