{"doc_desc":{"title":"Labour Force and Economic Survey - 1985-1986","idno":"DDI-LKA-DCS-LES-1985-1986-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Minstry  of  Finance  &  Planning","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-10-17","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( October 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-DCS-LES-1985-1986-v1.0","title":"Labour Force and Economic Survey - 1985-1986","alt_title":"LES 1985-1986"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 1985\/86, Department of Census and Statistics"},"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"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Labor Force Survey [hh\/lfs]","series_info":"This sarvey is the third in the series of surveys conducted \n by the Department of  Census  and Statistics under the\nNational Household Sample Survey Programme. First in the series\nwas the Labour Force and Sooio Economic Survey -1980\/81. The\nsecond is the is the Survey of Household  Economic Activities - 1984\/85.\nThe Labour Force and Socio-Economic Survey - 1985\/86 will provide comprehensive \ninformation on labour force charachteristics, income and expenditure. additional \nbackground information on demographic characteristics of the population was also \ncollected as such information is needed to analyse the labour force, income and\nexpenditure data."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-10-17","version_notes":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"},{"topic":"ECONOMICS [1]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Labour Force and Socio Economic Survey - 1985\/86 provides\ncomprehensive information on labour force charachteristics, Income\nand Expenditure  and   additional background information on demograhic \ncharacteristics of the population.\n\nThe information on labour force are generally used to :\n\n(1) to study the situation and trends in employment, unemployment\n     and under employment.\n (2) to quantify the magnitude and distribution of employment oppertunities\n       at any point of time or over a given period of time.\n  (3) to monitor the performance of employnlent programmes and of the \n         economy in general.\n (4) to evaluate the impact of such programmmes on unemployment and \n       under employment, income and the satisfaction of the basic needs.\n\nThe information on income and expenditure usually serve the one or more\nof the following objectives.\n\n(a) To obtain weights and other useful data for planning,\n       price collection or the construction or revision of \n       consumer price indexes.\n(b) To supply basic data needed for policy making in\n       connection with social and economic planning and to\n       facilitate determination of needs or the establishment\n       of targets.\n(c)  To provide data for assessing the impact on household\n        living conditions of existing or proposed economic\n        or economical measures, particularly changes in the \n        structure of household expenditures and in household\n        consumption.\n(d)   To provide data for estimating the redistributive\n         effects of direct and indirect taxation and of a\n         wide range of social benefits, on the situations\n         of the various types of family.\n(e)  To analyse the variations in levels of living \n        over a periods of years and the disparities among\n        households in socio-economic groups, geographic \n        areas urban, rural and estates sector etc;\n(f)  To supplement the data availabilty for  use in\n       compiling official estimates of household accounts\n       in the system of national accounts and balances.\n(g)  To furnish data on the distribution of household\n        income and expenditure.","coll_dates":[{"start":"1985-04-01","end":"1986-03-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"The survey will  cover  all the district in Sri Lanka.","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  LES  1985\/86 includes the following key sections:-\n                                                1). Identification Information & Control Data\n                                                2). Personal Charachteristics\n                                                3). Persons 10 years and over\n                                                4). Persons age 5-14 \n                                                5). Persons age 15-29\n                                                6). Persons age 15-49\n                                                7). Income Part 1\n                                                8). Other Cash\n                                                9). Income in kind\n                                              10). Monthly rental value\n                                              11). Income from non agricultural activities\n                                              12). Income from agricultural activities\n                                              13). Income from other agricultural activities\n                                              14). Expenditure\n                                              15). Household expenditure - housing, fuel and lighting\n                                              16). Expenditure of boarders, lodgres etc;"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"Sample Design\n\nSample design is  strtified two stage design.  The first step was to define the sampling domains,\nfor each of which an estimate desired. It was decided that the final\nestimates are required at district level and at the same  time by\nsectors at all island level, In addition to this, seperat estimates are required for large\nlarge cities  such as  Colombo  M.C., Dehiwala -Mt.Lavania M.C. and Kotte U.C. \nA total sample of 25,000  housing units were decided, to have 1000 housing units for\n each district on the average.\n \nStratification\nBach domain for which separate estimates are required were\nmade a separate stratum.  As such each sector within each district is\na seperate stratum,  in addition to the three large urban cities.\n\nStages\n.,A two stage design is adopted, first stage units (PSU)  being\nthe Cens blocks prepared for 1981 Census of population  and  the\nsecond stage units (SSU)  being the housing units. It was decided to select\n10 housing units from each. selected Census  Block. Thus a first stage sample\nof 2500 census bolcks  have to be selected from entire island.","sampling_deviation":"Non completion schedules in Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Kilinochchi district were high due to the disturbances.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The survey schedule which was canvassed to households comprised of four sections.\nThe first page of the schedule collected the identification information of the household\ngiving the District, Electorate, Assistant Government Agent's division, Grama Sevaka divison\nand if situated in an -urban sector, the name of the M.C., U.C. or T.C. arid if in the Rural or\nEstate sector name of the village or estate respectively. The census block number to which\nthe household belongs and the number of households within that housing.unit were also recorded.\n\nIn the control data section, information was sought on the date of visit to heusehold,\nresult of the visit and the time taken to fill the schedule on each visit. The total number\nof visits  made by an interviewer to a household was expected to be not more than six. visits.\nA code indicates the result of the visit in the following manner_: completed - 1, partly completed\n- 2, no competent respondent at home - 3, refused - 4, household is temporarily closed - 5\nhouse is demolished - 6 or any other reason under 'other' - 7. These data not only control\nthe flow of the schedu les, as a schedu Ie had to be completed at least up to the control data\nfor each of the selected households, but also enable to compute the different non-response\nrates such as refusal rate, demolished cases etc.\n\nThe four major sections of the schedule are the Section 1, which deals with demographic\ncharacteristics of the household members, Section 2, which deals with the labour\nforce which consists of persons 10 years and over, and supplementary questions in respect of\nchildren aged 5-14 years, youths aged 15-29 years and women in the age group 15-49,\nSection 3 deals with all sources of income received by the household members and \nSection 4 deals with the household expenditure incurred during different reference periods.","coll_situation":"Approximately 250 Statistical Investigators, who belong to the permanent\nfield staff of the Department of Census and Statistics were primarily involved in the listing\noperation prior to the survey proper, and in the survey data collection operation itself. Each\nS.I. is incharge of all statistical activities in an administrative geographical unit called an\nAssistant Government Agent Division (A.G.A. Division). Each administrative district comprises\nof number of suchA.G.A. Divisions and there are altogether 256 A.G.A. Divisions\nin Sri Lanka (in the 25 administrative districts). These officers were given a thorough training\nbefore they were entrusted with the said survey operations. In each diStrict there is a Statistical\nOffi-cer (S.O.) who is incharge of the statistical activities in the district and one of his\nmain functions is to supervise the work of the Statistical Investigators.\nThe functions of the Statistical Investigators in the field for this survey were\n\n(a) Updating the lists of housing units of the selected blocks (PSU's) and preparation\nof listing forms (LFSE- L) as described in Part 1-3. (sample design\nand estimation procedure). \n\n(b) Interviewing the households in the selected housing ,units.\n\nA special feature in the interviewing process of the Labour Force and SocioEconomic\nSurvey - 1985\/86 was that, it was necessary for a Statistical Investigator to make\nat least three visits to each household allocated for him for the survey enumeration. This\nprocedure was sq. adopted to enable each S.1. to collect reliable information on daily consumption\nexpenditure on Food, Drink & Tobacco, for seven consecutive days, as required 'in\nthe sub-section 4.1.01 of the survey schedule (see annexure for the schedule). On his first\nvisit he was expected to collect necessary information under this sub-section correspondin-gto\nthe day prior to the day 'of first vi'sit, which we may refer to as the first'day of the seven consecutive\ndays. He was expected to make his second visit to the same household .on the third\nday after the day of first visit. On this visit he could collect the information necessary under\nthis sub-section for the second, third and the fourth days of the seven consecutive days.\nOn his third visit to the household which would take place on the third day after the day\nof the second visit he could collect the information necessary under the same sub-section for\nthe fifth, sixth and the seventh days of the seve.n consecutive days. Investigators were expected\nto cover-up the other sections of the schedule also, during the time of. these three\nvisits.","act_min":"The District S.Os were instructed to choose 10 housing units at random from\n5 different blocks, surveyed by 5 different Statistical Investigators for re-interviewing. \nHouseholds in the housing units so selected were re-interviewed by the S.O. for selected \nquestions of the survey schedule.\nIn the instances where the responses so obtained were different from the original responses,\nthey were entered in the schedule so that these entries could be clearly distinguished from\nthose recorded at the initial interview. A summary report of his findings were sent to the Sample Survey Division each month. In this manner, weaker Statistical Investigators  in performing field work were identified and were given instructions if it seemed necessary.","cleaning_operations":"All completed schedules were subject to a comprehensive manual editing operation\nby a well trained group of officers at the Sample Survey Division. At this stage, schedules were checked\nfor the skip pattern, impossible entries, unreasonably large values and also for internal consistency.\nThe relevant field officers were contacted to get the necessary adjustment!; done, if\nit seemed necessary. Coding of the responses, to the questions which were not in the precoded\nform, was also done simultaneously with the editing operation.\nMost of the edits performed manually were incorporated in the computer edits\nand the data was 'thoroughly, cleaned before the working master files were created. The\ncomputer edit consisted of three parts.. ,\n(a) structural edit\n(b) range edit\n(c) edits for internal consistency, between and within sections"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"The response rate at all island level was 96.4%.","sampling_error_estimates":"Estimation Procedure of Sampling Error is given the Preliminary Report.\n\nThe Preliminary Report is attached in the external resources section."}},"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, Labour Force and Socio Economic Survey - 1985\/86, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (October 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.","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"}