Overview

Identification

COUNTRY

Mongolia

TITLE

LFS 2006/2007
 

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.
 

Version

VERSION DESCRIPTION

v 3.0-Edited data for internal use only.
 

PRODUCTION DATE

2016-01-19

Overview

ABSTRACT

The Labour Force Survey of Mongolia (LFS) with the Child Activities Module (CAM) 2002-2003 is the first in a series of proposed employment surveys in Mongolia. The LFS is the first sample survey on employment to be undertaken in the country, utilizing internationally used concepts and methods of measuring the economically active population. Labour force survey (LFS), the nucleus of social statistical information is a first large scale survey that has measured the economic activities and employment of the population by two methods (“current” and “usual status” approaches) in conformity with common concepts and definitions and methodologies recommended by International Labour Organization. Labour force survey is especially important in a sense that it elicits comprehensive data on employment patterns and unemployment and provides new and reliable data sources which are useful in addressing the pressing issues in the lives of a society and citizens. LFS is specific in a way that at its early stage, a child activities module was incorporated to have collected a comprehensive and rich source of data on child economic activities and scope and pattern of child work and child labour.
 

KIND OF DATA

Sample survey data [ssd]
 

UNITS OF ANALYSIS

Household and all household members.
 

Scope

NOTES

Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

The survey is nationally and regionally (5 regions - West, Central, East, South, Ulaanbaatar) representative and covers the whole of Mongolia.
 

UNIVERSE

The survey was designed to interview a representative national sample of about 12,800 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)

OTHER PRODUCER(S)

FUNDING

Metadata Production

METADATA PRODUCED BY

DATE OF METADATA PRODUCTION

2007-11-12

DDI DOCUMENT VERSION

Version 2.0
 

DDI DOCUMENT ID

DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2006-v2.0

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling unit of survey is a household. The sample frame of 2006-2007 has been the administration units of Mongolia and the sampling was based on 2005 household, population and work age population to improve the previous sampling design. As of 2000 Population and Housing Census, the total population amounted to 2,373,493 and household to 541,149 whereas these figures went up to 2,594,792 and 632,500 respectively by the end of 2006. In addition, the migration was on the rise. Therefore, it was necessary to redesign the sample based on the final data of the previous year. As most of enumeration areas of 2000 Population and Housing Census disappeared or significanly reduced in size, the survey had to make sampling by aimag, soum and bag frames. At the same time the sampling technique required to split some of primary sampling unit (bags in aimag centers and parts of the cities which had a large number of residents) into smaller segments. In light of this requirement and ratio between sampling units and sample households, the number of households in sample enumeration areas was set at 12 and enumeration areas at 1024.
A total of 29 strata was made comprised of 21 strata representing each of all aimags and 8 strata from 9 districts of Ulaanbaatar city(least populated two districts were put into one strata). Primary sampling units are parts of khoroos of Ulaanbaatar city and bags in aimags to make up 1024 units in total comprised of 384 parts and 640 bags. The second labour force survey adopted a multi stage stratified sampling design. Sampling was made on estimate of the weight of unemployment in total population. In addition, sampling distibution by aimag anc city districts was made in proportion to work age population. At primary sampling stage, the selection was made by probability proportional to size and at secondary stage 12 households were selected from each enumeration area using the simple random sampling procedure. To rephrase, the survey households were chosen with the method of a sub-sampling.
 

Response Rate

None reported
 

Weighting

Estimation procedure for LFS + NCLS 2006 of Mongolia is provided as external resources.

Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Data Processing

Data Editing

The data processing of LFS was organized at two levels. Data editing and validation, computer processing and preparation of tabulations being undertaken centrally at the NSO, while manual editing and coding, key entry and verification were undertaken at the provincial level. Checking the completeness of questionnaires, coding of questionnaires, range edit checks, simple consistency edits and electronic transfer of the keyed in data to the NSO were undertaken at the provincial level. The NSO computer staff were familiar with the IMPS software developed by the US Bureau of the Census and this software had been used both in population census and survey processing. Thus, LFS data entry programmes were prepared using IMPS and for range and consistency checks the CONCOR module was used.

Other Processing

For tabulation process used SPSS. After data processing the WG together with the Consultant made statistical analysis on selected indicators, compared some results with the ones of other surveys and census, data consolidation, error corrections etc. were undertaken. The sampling errors of selected estimates were computed using CENVAR module in the IMPS package.