Overview
Abstract
Labour statistics play an essential role in the efforts of the country to achieve decent work for all. These statistics are needed for the development of policies towards this goal and for assessing progress towards decent work.
The government of Rwanda needs updated information for monitoring progress on programs and policies as stipulated in the first National Strategy for Transformation (NST1) 2017-24, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as vision 2050. To monitor progress towards these goals and targets, relevant, reliable, coherent, timely and accessible labour statistics have to be produced.
The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda introduced the labour force survey (LFS) program since 2016 to provide key stakeholders, Ministry of Public Service and Labour and Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, the Ministry of Education, International Labour Organization and other users, with needed labour statistics.
The ultimate goal of the labour force survey is to collect data on employment and labour underutilization characteristics of the population on a continuous basis, providing quarterly estimates of the main labour force aggregates. The Rwanda Labour Force survey programme begun in 2016 with an annual sample spread into two rounds to provide bi-annual estimates of main indicators at the National level. From February 2019, the annual sample was spread into four rounds to provide estimates of main labour market indicators on quarterly basis at the National level. This specific report combine data of all four rounds for which the data collection was conducted in 2020, specifically in February, May, August and November, to provide 2020 annual estimates at national and district level where applicable. Note that May 2020 round was not including all the questions asked in other rounds of Labour force as is was conduct through a subsample of February 2020 and was only among households whose telephone were valid(74%), May and Nov. 2020 round were conduct online using CAPI.
Units of Analysis
Household and individual
Labor force survey data are at the National level coverage but Employment and Labour force participation rate are represented at District level as well as by residential area.
The target population eligible for Labor force survey is 16 years old and above resident of selected households. However, the survey also collected data on certain particular labour-market related issues such as income from employment, migrant workers and workers with disabilities. The survey consider all persons living in private households. It excludes the institutional population permanently residing in houses such as hostels; health resorts; correctional establishments etc., as well as persons living in seasonal dwellings not covered in the survey. It also excludes workers living at their work-sites.
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