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

Documentation in PDF

Created on

May 01, 2014

Last modified

May 01, 2014

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Overview

Identification

Country

SAMOA

Title

2012 Labour Force Survey

Study Type

Labor Force Survey

Series Information

The Labour Force Survey is the first of its kind in Samoa based on concepts and definitions outlined by the International Labour Organization. It is plan to undertake in every 4 years depending on the availability of funding from the Government of Samoa thru the ongoing collaboration between Samoa Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Commerce Industry and Labour

ID Number

WSM-SBS-LFS-2012-v1

Version

Version Description

Version1, clean, edited, anonymized and final for public use.

Production Date

2013-08-19

Notes

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 analysis

Overview

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 Training

Economic 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
Labor & Social Protection	World Bank

Keywords

Samoa Labour Force

Coverage

Geographic Coverage (1)

National

Geographic Coverage (2)

Urban and rural areas

Geographic Coverage (3)

Regional: Apia Urban Area, North West of Upolu, Rest of Upolu and Savaii

Universe

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
Samoa Bureau of Statistics	Government Ministry
Ministry of Commerce Industry and Labour	Government Ministry

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Government of Samoa	GoS	Human Resuorces
International Labour Organization	ILO	Funding

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development	Government Ministry	Deals with Villages Represtatives

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Social Statistics Division	SSD	Samoa Bureau of Statistics	Documentation of the study

Date of Metadata Production

2014-04-28

DDI Document Version

Version 1.0 (April 2014). This is the original version of the study.

DDI Document ID

DDI-SAM-SBS-LFS-2012-v01