{"doc_desc":{"title":"Labour  Force  Survey  -  1999","idno":"DDI-LKA-DCS-LFS-1999-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Minstry  of  Finance  &  Planning","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-06-03","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( June 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-DCS-LFS-1999-v1.0","title":"Labour  Force  Survey  -  1999","alt_title":"LFS  1999"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"","affiliation":"","email":"","role":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 2008, Department of Census and Statistics","prod_date":"2008-01-30"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Information Unit","affiliation":"Department of Census & Statistics","email":"information@statistic.gov.lk ","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"},{"name":"Sample Survey Division","affiliation":"Department of Census & Statistics","email":"sample.survey@statistic.gov.lk ","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"},{"name":"","affiliation":"","email":"","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Labor Force Survey [hh\/lfs]","series_info":"Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey (LFS) was designed to measure the levels and trends  of employment,  unemployment  and labour force in Sri Lanka. \n\nSince 1990, the survey is being conducted quarterly. 1999 is the tenth successive year in which the survey has been repeated. \n \nAmongst other figures, Provincial level estimates  are taken from the Annual  LFS 1999 data file which is a combination of all the four quarterly files processed for the year 1999."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-06-03"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The employment\/unemployment data are required at very short intervals to monitor the program made in the employment generating policies of the government.  To satisfy this need, Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey was designed as a quarterly basis survey  to measure the levels and trends of employment, unemployment and labour force in Sri Lanka. Thus the survey is repeated four times each year since the first quarter of 1990.   \n \nKey  objectives  of  the  survey\n   -  To  study  the  economically active \/ inactive population.\n   -  To  analyze  employment by major industry group and employment status.\n   -  To  determine  unemployment rates by level of education and by age group \n   -  To  study  the informal sector employment.\n   -  To  determine  the  underemployment rates  by sector  and  by major industries","coll_dates":[{"start":"1999-01-01","end":"1999-12-31","cycle":"12 months"}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage. ( Excluding Nothern and Eastern provinces )","analysis_unit":"Individuals from the population aged 10 years or more","universe":"Working age population (10 years and above) living in the non-institutional households in Sri Lanka","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The  scope  of  LFS  1999 includes the following key sections:-\n                                                1). Identification Information\n                                               2). Control Data\n                                               3). Personal  Information\n                                               4). Information on Labour Force\n                                              \nIdentification and Personal Information are as follows:-\n \nIdentification  Information\n   -  Address, Province, District, D.S. Division, G. N. Division, Sector, Name of MC\/UC\/PS\n   -  Name  of  Ward\/Village\/Estate, Census Block Number, Sample Reference Number\n   -  Survey Quarter, Number  of  households, Name  of  the Head  of the  household\n   -  Identifications of  Interviewers  &  Supervising Officers  \n   \nPersonal Information\n  -  Relationship to Head of Household, Gender, Age, Ethnic Group, Religion, Marital Status\n   -  Educational Attainment, Attendance at Schooling or other Educational Institution\n   -  Professional \/ Technical Training, Persons who are working abroad"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning"}],"sampling_procedure":"The Survey is conducted quarterly to produce estimates of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and basic demographic characteristics. The scope of coverage includes all households in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe list of housing units created for Demographic Survey 1994 were taken as sample frame. Sample lists were selected from the above frame taken as primary Sampling Units (PSU). A systematic Sample of 15 housing units per PSU was selected on final sampling\nunits.\n\nThe total annual sample size is 15915 housing units, distributed as 265 PSUs per each quarter and 15 housing units (SSUs) per PSU. The allocation to the domains aims at ensuring approximately equal levels of reliability from domain to domain. .\n\nThe 1,061 PSUs were selected by systematic Sampling from the PSUs created for Demographic Survey - 1994. A listing operation was conducted in each selected PSU to provide a frame for the second stage of selection. The selection of housing units within PSU was\nsystematic with random start.","sampling_deviation":"The field of survey conducted in year 1999 was confined to seven province of the country excluding the Northern and the Eastern provinces due to the prevailing situation there.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaire covered questions under four main headings such as\n\nIdentification Information\nControl data\nPersonal Information\nLabour force Information\nQuestions common to all employed persons \n\nCurrent survey concepts and methods are very similar to those introduced at the beginning of the\nsurvey in 1990. However, some changes have been made over the years to improve the accuracy and\nusefulness of the data. [Questionnaire is attached in the External Resources section].","coll_situation":"Data are collected quarterly during a similar time period (eg every third week of the quarter) in each quarter through a scientifically selected sample designed to represent the non-institutional household population. About 4000 households are visited each quarter. Respondents are interviewed to obtain information about each member of the household  whose age is  10 years or over.\n\nThe inquiry relates to the previous calendar week of the interview to obtain \"current\" information, and to the previous 12 calendar months to obtain \"usual\" activity information.\n\n[Inmates of institutions, military camps, and lodgings are not surveyed. Households with more than 5 lodgers and boarders were excluded from the survey.]","act_min":"Senior officers of the DCS visited the district to check enumerator\"s work","method_notes":"Data was processed in district -wise batches and filed separately with different file names.\n \nData processing included the following steps. \n \n    1.  Counting and accepting the filled questionnaires by the DP Division\n    2.  Do a visual check for completeness\n    3.  Preliminary editing and marking codes\n    4.  Entry of data \n    5.  Run edit program for each District batch\n    6.  Produce error report and return to the Survey office\n    7.  Correction of errors on the report\n    8.  Change incorrect data using the corrected error report\n    9.  Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n  10. Consolidate all clean batch files to form the master file and update same with code labels\n  11. Produce final tables on clean data (updated with sample weights) with a backup of clean data."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"Under the Statistical ordinance, micro data cannot be released with identifications for public use. Procedures are in place to ensure that information relating to any particular individual person, household or undertaking will be kept strictly confidential and will not be divulged to external parties. Information on individual or individual Household\/establishment will not be divulged or published in such a form that will facilitate the identification of any particular person or establishment as the data have been collected under the Census\/Statistical ordinance, according to which the information at individual level cannot be divulged and such information is strictly confidential.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Director General","affiliation":"Department of Census and Statistics","email":"dgcensus@sltnet.lk","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey - 1999, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (June 2008), provided by the National Data Archive, Data Processing Division, www.statistics.gov.lk\"","conditions":"The dataset has been anonymized and is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is  accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:\n\n1. The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement.\n \n2. The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.\n \n3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. \n \n4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by the Department  or among data from the Department and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. \n\n5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Department will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset. \n\n6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the Department  \n\nThe following rules apply to micro data released by the Department of Census and Statistics.\n\n\u2022 Only the requests of Government Institutions, Recognized Universities, Students, and selected international agencies are entertained. However, the Data users are required to strictly adhere to\nthe terms stipulated in the agreement form.\n\n\u2022 All the data requests should be made to Director General (DG) of the DCS as the sole authority of releasing data is vested with the DG, DCS. DCS of Sri Lanka reserves sole right to approve or reject any data request made depending on the confidential nature of the data set and intended purpose of the study or analysis.\n\n\u2022 Requests for micro data should be made through the agreement form designed by DCS for this purpose (Form D.R.1). The agreement form should be filled in triplicate and the Study\/project proposal should accompany the filled agreement form. If requests are made for the micro data of more than one survey, a separate agreement should be signed.\n\n\u2022 If the data request is from a student a letter from the respective Dept. Head\/Dean\/Supervisor, recommending the issue of data, should also be accompanied.\n\n\u2022 If the request is approved only 25% of the data file is released at the first stage. The release of the total data file is considered only after reviewing the draft report prepared on the basis of the 25% sample data file.\n\n\u2022 The released Data file should be used only for the specific study\/Analysis mentioned in the agreement form and shall not be used for any other purpose without the prior approval of the Director General of the DCS. Moreover, Copies of the micro-data file, obtained from the DCS, shall not be given to anyone else without the prior written approval of the Director General of the DCS.\n\n\u2022 The draft report of the Study\/Analysis should be submitted to the DCS and the concurrence of the DG, DCS, should be obtained before publishing it. Once published, a copy of the final report should be submitted to the DCS.\n\n[Department : The Department of Census and Statistics]\nSource           : http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.lk\/databases\/data%20dissemination\/DataDissaPolicy_2007Oct26.pdf","disclaimer":"The Department of Census and Satatistics bears no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}