Rwanda - Rwanda Labour Force Survey

Start	End	Cycle
2018-02-04	2018-04-03	LFS February 2018
2018-08-01	2018-09-30	LFS August 2018

Face-to-face [f2f]
The main pre-survey activities conducted in preparation for the field operations included the establishment of the field organization, the recruitment and training of interviewers and the preparation of Tablets. The field work consisted of 2 coordinators, coordinating the work of 10 supervisors, 24 team leaders and 96 interviewers. So altogether the survey interviewing was carried out by a total of 120 interviewers. Interviews were conducted in both English and Kinyarwanda depending on the respondents.

The questionnaire was drafted in English and translated into Kinyarwanda. An instruction manual was developed in order to guide the enumerators how to use better the questionnaire and conduct interviews.

The questionnaire had the following sections:

- A Household roster
- Education
- Identification of employed, time-related underemployed,
- unemployed and potential labour force
- Characteristics of main job/activity
- Characteristics of secondary job/activity
- Past employment
- Own-use production of goods and services
- Subsistence foodstuff production
- Housing and household assets

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda	NISR	Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning

The field work consisted of 2 coordinators, coordinating the work of 10 supervisors, 24 team leaders and 96 interviewers. So altogether the survey interviewing was carried out by a total of 120 interviewers. To complement and verify these quality control measures, NISR and Ministry of Public Service and Labour conducted independent field visits to verify field teams' implementation of the survey methodology and the interviewing process. Checks were also carried out to assess completeness and logical consistency of interview data.