Overview

Identification

COUNTRY

Mongolia

TITLE

LFS 2016
 

STUDY TYPE

Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
 

SERIES INFORMATION

Mongolia conducted the “Labour Force Survey (LFS)” in 2002-2003, for the first time on a quarterly bases. The LFS was financially supported by the ILO and conducted according to internationally accepted methodologies. Since 2006, the LFS has been conducted on a quarterly basis according to the amendments reflected in 2004 in the Law on Statistics of Mongolia. We conducted LFS with sub-survey in some year. In 2002-2003, 2006-2007 years the LFS was conducted with Child labour survey. In 2007-2008, 2016 years the Informal sector survey was conducted with LFS.
 

Version

VERSION DESCRIPTION

Version 1.0
 

Overview

ABSTRACT

The main objective of the survey is to update and expand the labour force statistical baseline, fully capture and analyse the employment pattern. The survey results will provide an importance reference for policy and decision makers, business entrepreneurs, analysts and government officers to develop as well as monitor and assess the implementation of government policies and programmes on employment promotion and poverty and unemployment reduction and support the effective labour market. Accordingly, the survey aims at collecting the comprehensive set of data from households to estimate employment and unemployment characteristics which capture the seasonal variability, location, social and economic activities in accordance with the definition and methodology of ILO.
 

UNITS OF ANALYSIS

Household, househod members
 

Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

Ulaanbaatar and urban and rural areas of 4 regions
 

UNIVERSE

The survey was designed to interview a representative national sample of about 12816 households from Ulaanbaatar and urban and rural areas of 4 regions that was deemed sufficient to collect reliable data on employment and unemployment and child labour. At this level of disaggregation the sample would be sufficient to produce estimates of high levels of precision in respect of selected employment characteristics.
 

Producers and Sponsors

PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR(S)

Metadata Production

METADATA PRODUCED BY

DATE OF METADATA PRODUCTION

2017-05-05

DDI DOCUMENT ID

DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2016-v1.0

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Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

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