SAMOA - 2012 Labour Force Survey
Reference ID | WSM-SBS-LFS-2012-v1 |
Year | 2012 |
Country | SAMOA |
Producer(s) |
Samoa Bureau of Statistics - Government Ministry Ministry of Commerce Industry and Labour - Government Ministry |
Sponsor(s) | Government of Samoa - GoS - Human Resuorces International Labour Organization - ILO - Funding |
Metadata |
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Created on | May 01, 2014 |
Last modified | May 01, 2014 |
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Overview
Identification
ID Number WSM-SBS-LFS-2012-v1 |
Version
Version Description
Version1, clean, edited, anonymized and final for public use.Production Date
2013-08-19Notes
Computer Programmer and the Data Processing Team have been working so hard to revised the data over and over again before it was finalized. Since this is the first survey of its kind to be conducted in Samoa and the ILO standard questionnaire was adopted, a lot of new variables have been derived from the data and imputed in order to contextualise to the local text, perhaps make some sense to the analysisOverview
Abstract
This report provide some insights into employment and labour relations situation in Samoa covering topics such as characteristics of the Working Age Population (WAP), labour force, employment characteristics, participation in subsistence production, informal employment, unemployment characteristics, youth (aged 15 - 29 years) employment and unemployment characteristics, earnings from employment, working hours, occupational safety and equal opportunities for all, and a module on youth school-to-work transition (subject of a separate report). Hence, policy makers, planners and administrators will find this report useful in assisting them to develop, manage and evaluate labour market policies and programmes and to provide information's on hazards at work to enable them to formulate employment and labour related based decisions for the betterment of Samoa.Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]Units of Analysis
Education and TrainingEconomic Activity and Labour Force
Employment
Participation in Subsistence Production
Informal Employment
Unemployment
Youth Employment and Unemployment
Earnings from Employment
Working Hours
Occupational Safety
Equal Opportunities
Social Dialogue
Scope
Notes
The scope of the Labour Force Survey includes:Section A. Household composition and characteristics of household members
Section B. Literacy and Education {For persons aged 15 years and over}
Section C. Training within the last 12 months (outside of the general education system) {For persons aged 15 years and over}
Section D. Current activities {For persons aged 15 and over}
Section E. Characteristics of the main job/activity in the last 7 days {For employed persons aged 15 years and over}
Section F. Hours of work in the last 7 days {For persons aged 15 and over}
Section G. Underemployment in the past seven days {For employed persons aged 15 years and over}
Section H. Job search {For persons not employed in the last 7 days aged 15 years and over}
Section I. Inactive in the last 7 days {For persons aged 15 and over}
Section J. Occupational injuries within the last 12 months {For persons aged 15 and over}
Section K. Participation in the Production of Goods for use by own household {For persons aged 15 and over}
Topics
Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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Labor & Social Protection | World Bank |
Keywords
Samoa Labour ForceCoverage
Geographic Coverage (1)
NationalGeographic Coverage (2)
Urban and rural areasGeographic Coverage (3)
Regional: Apia Urban Area, North West of Upolu, Rest of Upolu and SavaiiUniverse
During the LFS, in each of the sample selected households, all persons in the household were interviewed hence the weighting was based on the responding households in the sample or household weights.Producers and Sponsors
Primary Investigator(s)
Name | Affiliation |
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Samoa Bureau of Statistics | Government Ministry |
Ministry of Commerce Industry and Labour | Government Ministry |
Funding
Name | Abbreviation | Role |
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Government of Samoa | GoS | Human Resuorces |
International Labour Organization | ILO | Funding |
Other Acknowledgements
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development | Government Ministry | Deals with Villages Represtatives |
Metadata Production
Metadata Produced By
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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Social Statistics Division | SSD | Samoa Bureau of Statistics | Documentation of the study |
Date of Metadata Production
2014-04-28DDI Document Version
Version 1.0 (April 2014). This is the original version of the study.DDI Document ID
DDI-SAM-SBS-LFS-2012-v01