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Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - 1974

Sri Lanka, 1974
Reference ID
LKA-DOL-SSE-1974-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division - Department of Labour
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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  • Identification
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  • Data Collection
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Identification

Survey ID Number
LKA-DOL-SSE-1974-v1.0
Title
Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - 1974
Country
Name Country code
Sri Lanka LKA
Study type
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
Series Information
This half-yearly sample survey was initiated in September, 1972 by the Department of Labour in pursuance of a UNDP/ILO project for the development of Labour Statistics. Since then the survey has been regularly conducted for the collection of data on earnings, hours of work and related matters for March and September of every year from a sample of establishments with 5 or more paid employees. The Sample Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - March/September, 1974 is the third in the series.
Abstract
This half yearly sample survey was initiated in September, 1972 by the Department of Labour in pursuance of a UNDP/ILO project for the Development of Labour Statistics. Since then the survey has been regularly conducted for the collection of data on earnings, hours of work and related matters for March and Septemberof every year from a sample of establishment s with 5 or more paid employees.
The survey covers a sample of larger establishments with 5 or more paid employees engaged in productiove, distributive, construction, transport, storage and other business activities like finance, insurance business services, etc; which come under the broad definition of "Industries". It covers both private and public sectors. The public sector coverage is limited to Boards, Corporations and Co-operatives and Government Departments like the Department of Buildings, Marketing, the Government Factory and the Railway Workshop, which are engaged in the types of activities mentioned above. The bulk of the public services, ie, Government Departments, Offices, Schools, Hospitals etc; are not considered in the survey as they do not come under the definition of "Industries".
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
The survey covers establishments with 5 or more paid employees.

Version

Version Description
v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version for internal use of the Department of Labour.
Version Date
2008-10-10

Scope

Notes
The scope of SSE 1974 includes the following key sections:-

Section A:

Serial no
Special Industry Code
District
Ownership
Whether Registered under Factory Ordinance
Whether covered under Wages Ordinance Board
Remuneration Tribunal
Weekly holidays
Bank & mercantile holidays
No of other closed days
Total no. of days worked - Half days & Full days

Section B:

Occupational Code
Category Code
No. of Male employees
No. of female employees
Total no of employees

Section C
Administrative & Managerial Workers
- No. of employees
- Man days
- Man hours normal
- Man hours overtime
- Basic salaries and wages
- Special allowances
- Overtime
- Cash payments

Professional & Technical
- No. of employees
- Man days
- Man hours normal
- Man hours overtime
- Basic salaries and wages
- Special allowances
- Overtime
- Cash payments
Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3] CESSDA Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage.
Universe
Industries with five or more paid employees.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Statistics Division - Department of Labour Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
Goverment of Sri Lanka GOSL

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
A probability sample of about 1500 establishments is selected every year for the survey from 12000 establishments which furnish returns under the Annual Employment Survey. The sample design is based on the principle of stratified cut-off random sampling.
First universe is divided into 22 industry-strata and each industry-stratum is sub divided into several size-strata. In an industry stratum all establishments above a particular size (defined as the cut-off point) are included in the sample and suitable fractions are sampled from lower size strata, such that the total sample will be optimum in size, ie. roughly about the smallest needed to give estimates with a pre-determined degree of precision which was fixed at 5% error at 95% confidence interval for total unemployment.

The details of the sample surveyed in 1974 are given in the following Table 1 of the of the statistical Appendix of the attached Report in the External Resources Section

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1974-03-01 1974-09-30
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
The survey had to face many practical difficulties mainly inadequate of staff and equipment. The field work took long time to complete, field supervision and spot checks on the quality of primary data were limited and editing lagged behind field work.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Deputy Director Labour Statistics Division labourst@sltnet.lk www.labour.lk
Confidentiality
The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.
Access conditions
Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.
Citation requirements
"Department of Labour, Sample Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - March and September 1974 , Version 1.0 of the public use dataset ( October 2008 )
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Commsioner General of Labour Department of Labour labourst@sltnet.lk www.labour.lk

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The Department of Labour bears no responsibilty for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of data.
Copyright
(C) 2008, Department of Labour

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-LKA-DOL-SSE-1974-v1.0
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Department of Labour DOL Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower Data Collection
Date of Metadata Production
2008-10-10
DDI Document version
Version 1.0 ( October 2008 ).
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