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Report on Urban Employment Unemployment Survey 2015 (2007 E.C)

 

The general objective of the 2015 Urban Employment and Unemployment Survey is to provide statistical data on the characteristics and size of the economic activity status i.e. employed, unemployed population of the country at urban levels on annual basis. The specific objectives of the survey are to:
collect statistical data on the potential manpower and those who are available to take part in various socio-economic activities;
update the data and determine the size and distribution of the labour force participation and the status of economic activity for different sub-groups of the population at different levels of the     country; and also to study the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of these groups;
identify the size, distribution and characteristics of employed population i.e. working in the formal or informal employment sector of the economy and earnings from paid employees and its distribution by occupation and Industry...etc;
provide data on the size, characteristics and distribution of unemployed population and rate of unemployment;
provide data that can be used to assess the situation of women’s employment or the participation of women in the labour force;
generated time series data to trace changes over time;