LFS

LFS 2015

Mongolian, 2015
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Reference ID
DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2015-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office
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LABOUR FORCE SURVEY
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  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2015-v1.0
    Title

    LFS 2015
    Country
    Name Country code
    Mongolian MNG
    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 the Informal sector survey was conducted with LFS.
    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.

    Version

    Version Description

    version 1.0

    Coverage

    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 investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Statistical Office NSO

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2015-01-01 2015-12-31
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Gantuya Population and Social Statistics Department gantuya@nso.mn

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-LFS-2015-v1.0
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Role
    National Statistical Office NSO Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2016-01-19

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    version 1.0
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