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Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - 1977

Sri Lanka, 1977
Reference ID
LKA-DOL-SSE-1977-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division - Department of Labour
Metadata
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  • Identification
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  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
LKA-DOL-SSE-1977-v1.0
Title
Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - 1977
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.
From 1975, the Sample Survey of Earnings and Hours Worked is being carried out only once a year and the reference period for the 1975 survey was March 1975 though this was changed to June from 1976.
The Sample Survey of Establishments on Employment, Earnings & Hours of Work - June, 1977 is the sixth in the series.
Abstract
The survey covers a sample of larger establishments with five or more paid employees engaged in production, distribution, construction, transport, storage and other business activities like finance, insurance, business services etc, which come under the broad definition of "Industries". It covers both public and private sectors. The public sector coverage is limited to Boards, Corporations, Co-operatives and some Government Departments like the Department of Buildings, the Marketing Department, the Government Factory, and the Railway Workshop which are engaged in the types of activities mentioned above. The bulk of the public services i.e. Government Departments other than those mentioned above Offices, Schools, Hospitals etc, are not covered in the survey as they do not come under the definition of "Industries".

The objective of the sample survey is to collect detailed labour statistics on a repetitive basis to indicate trends. Statistics of earnings and hours of work are collected including number employed, man days worked and paid for normal, and overtime man hours and the components of the total wage bill. These statistics are collected according to the eightfold broad occupational categories e.g. Administrative & Managerial Workers, Professional, Technical and Related Workers, Clerical and Related Workers etc.
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, for internal use.
Version Date
2009-12-29

Scope

Notes
The scope of SSE 1977 includes :-


Serial no
Special Industry Code
District
Sector
The details such as (No. of employees, Total man days worked, On paid holidays, On paid leave days, Total man hours worked ( Normal ),Total man hours worked ( Overtime ), Basic Salaries & Wages, Special allowances, Overtime cash payments, Other cash payments, Estimated value of payments in kind ) by.

Administrative & Manegerial Workers
Professional, Technical and Related Workers
Clerical & Related Workers
Sales Workers
Supervisors & Foremen
Skilled & Semi-Skilled
Unskilled
Young & Child Workers
Total Workers
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 probabilty sample of about 1750 establishments were selected for the survey from some 12,000 establishments, the frame being the responding establishments of the Annual Employment Survey 1976. The method of stratified random sampling was adopted to select the establishments such that the sample will be optimum in size to give the estimates a predetermined degree of precision which was fixed at 5% error at 95% confidence limits.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1977-07-01 1977-07-31
Data Collection Mode
Other [oth]
Data Collection Notes
The Programming Assistants of the Statistics Branch of the Department of Labour are responsible for the collection of the data from the sample establishments. Data was collected from the records and the registers of the establishments.

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
In 1977, the same schedule which was used in 1976, was used to collect the data.

Data Processing

Data Editing
Certain edit checks were introduced in the Computer Programs and on the basis of that some quality checks were exercised.

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 - June 1977 , Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (December 2009 )
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) 1977, Department of Labour

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-LKA-DOL-SSE-1977-v1.0
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Department of Labour DOL Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower Data Collection
Date of Metadata Production
2009-12-29
DDI Document version
Version 1.0 ( December 2009 ).
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