{"doc_desc":{"title":"Annual Employment Survey - 1997","idno":"DDI-LKA-DOL-EMS-1997-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Labour","abbreviation":"DOL","affiliation":"Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-06-11","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( June 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-DOL-EMS-1997-v1.0","title":"Annual Employment Survey - 1997","alt_title":"EMS 1997"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Department of Labour","affiliation":"Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 2008, Department of Labour","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Goverment of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Deputy Director","affiliation":"Labour Statistics Division","email":"labourst@sltnet.lk","uri":"www.labourdept.gov.lk"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"This is the 23rd survey in the series of Annual Employment Surveys conducted by the Statistics Division of the Department of Labour. The First Survey of this series had been conducted in 1971. The main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organised sector establishments in the country. The survey covers establishments with five or more paid employees in the private sector and also semi-government institutions in the public sector."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal use of the Department of Labour.","version_date":"2008-06-11"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"employment [3.1]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"},{"topic":"labour relations\/conflict [3.3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Annual Employment Survey of Sri Lanka conducted by the Department of Labour has been designed to measure the levels and trends of the private sector and semi-government sector employment of the country over a period of time.\nThe main objective of the survey is to collect employment related information in the organised sector establishments of the country","coll_dates":[{"start":"1997-07-01","end":"1997-07-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage\n\nAlthough this is a national level survey, coverage of Nothern and Estern provinces was not at a sufficient level of response due to the prevailing situation in this area.\n\nThe coverage was also limited because of the fact that there was no complete list of establishments for the whole country at the time of the survey.","analysis_unit":"The survey covers establishments in both Public and Private sectors","universe":"The survey covered establishments with five or more paid employees in private sector and also semi-government institutions in public sector.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The  scope  of  EMS 1997  includes the following key sections:-\n      \n      Establishment particulars\n                       - Name of establishment\n                       - Location and full address\n                       - Telephone number\n                       - District of assistant commissioner of labour\n                       - Revenue district\n                       - DS division\n                       - MC\/UC area\n                       - Telephone number and address of head office\n                       - Nature of economic activity\n          \n      Classification of employees (Sri Lankan and Non Sri Lankan employees)\n                       - Number of permanant employees\n                       - Number of temporary employees\n                       - Number of casual employees\n                       - Number of learners and apprentices\n              \n      Details of occupational categories\n                       - Number of men and women in administrative & managerial category (Adults\/Under 18 years)\n                       - Number of men and women in professional\/technical and related category (Adults\/Under 18 years)\n                       - Number of men and women in clerical and related category (Adults\/Under 18 years)\n                       - Number of men and women in sales workers category (Adults\/Under 18 years)\n                       - Number of men and women in supervisor and foremen category (Adults\/Under 18 years) \n                       - Number of men and women in skilled and semi-skilled category (Adults\/Under 18 years)\n                       - Number of men and women in unskilled category (Adults\/Under 18 years)"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"A complete list of establishments ( survey frame ) was available at the time of the first survey started in 1971. This list was compiled  along with the list of buildings in the country prepared for the Census of Population and Housing 1971. There were about 22,500 establishments with 5 or more paid employees and thereafter this survey frame was updated annually, taking new registrations from the Employees Provident Fund lists. \n\nConstruction of indices:\nIndex numbers of employment are calculated with 1971 as the base year, and using the link relative method. Indices are computed for each major industry division,\n\nWeighting of sample results:\nThe employment estimates are not weighted\n\nAdjustments:\nNon response : there are no adjustments for non response\nOther bias       : no adjustments have been made for any other bias.\nUse of bench mark data : none\nSeasonal variations : not relevant\n\nIndicators of reliability of the estimates : \nCoverage of the sampling frame : coverage is limited, as there is no complete list of establishments for the whole country.\nSampling error\/Sampling variance : not relevant\nNon response rate :  \n\nNon sampling errors : the main known source of bias is the limited coverage of the survey due to the lack of a complete list of establishments for the whole country","sampling_deviation":"The coverage of the survey was badly affected due to the limiting factors such as the non availability of a complete list of establishments for the whole country and the nature of the method of data collection (postal survey method).","coll_mode":["Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaire used in the Annual Employemnet Survey consists of three main parts.\n\nThey are :\n     1. Establishment particulars\n     2. Classification of employees\n     3. Occupational category\n     \nThe questionnaire was printed in Sinhala, Tamil and English.","coll_situation":"1. Schedules were posted  in the months of July\/August.\n2. Reminders were sent to the non-responding eastblishments in September\n3. Parallel to the postal questionnaire, DCS officers visited the non-reponding institutions to collect data.\n4. The data collection procedure continued till December.","act_min":"Two Statistical officers were engaged in the supervision activities pertaining to sending and receiving the questionnaires, coding and tabulation of data.","cleaning_operations":"An edit program was run to edit the raw data files. \n\nDepending on the absence or presence of errors, the records in the raw data file were seperated into an error free file and a rejects file respectively. From the rejects file, a error report was generated indicating the reason for rejection of each record. The errors were checked and manually corrected on the report by referring to the questionnaire. Based on the corrected report, error records were updated by data entry operators. \n\nThe edit program was run again to edit the rejects file and the error free records were added to the error free file. If the rejects file was not empty the edit process was repeated.","method_notes":"The whole Data processing cycle consists of the following steps. \n\n     1.  Accepting the filled questionnaires \n     2.  Do a visual check for completeness\n     3.  Preliminary editing and coding\n     4.  Entry of data\n      \n     5.  Editing - Run edit program\n     6.  Editing - Produce error report and return to the Statistical Division of the Labour Deprtment.\n     7.  Editing - Correction of errors on the edit printout.\n     8.  Editing - Change incorrect data using the corrected error printout\n     9.  Editing - Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n     \n   10.  Consolidation of edited data files to prepare the Master file and re-coding of variables needed for analysis.\n   11.  Produce final tables specified by the Statistical Division of the Labour Department.."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Commsioner General of Labour","affiliation":"Department of Labour","email":"","uri":"www.labourdept.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Department of Labour, Annual Employment Survey 1997, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset ( June 2008 )\"","conditions":"Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.","disclaimer":"The Department of Labour  bears no responsibilty for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}