1. Ezequiel Lourenço António Luís (Head of Division) Accra, Ghana 26-28 January 2009 Labour Force Survey in Angola Global Forum on Gender Statistics

2. Purpose of presentation  Explain the procedure involved in Angola LFS to collected data on:  Employment in the informal sector  Informal employment.  Measurement of women´s work

3. What is the Angola LFS  It is a household survey.  It is the first LFS at national level in Angola  It is a survey included in the Program activities of Angolan Government for the year 2009

4. Goals Obtain official statistical data every 6 months for policy decision-making; Monitoring of the Millenuim Development Goals Strategic programming key information includes:  Labour Force characteristics in Angola;  Socio-demographics characteristics;  Households Socio-economics conditions

5. Coverage Geographic coverage: National level Sampling:  Representative at the, provincial urban and rural areas  Sample size:11.000 households  Provisional timeframe for data collection: February-March 2009

6. Questionnaire  Includes 4 Modules: –A. Geographic Information –B. Sócio – Demographics Characteristics –C. Education and Professional Training –D. Employment

7. Field Work Field team composition: –1 Field Supervisor –1 Cartographer –1 Questionnaire Reviewer –7 Enumerators –1 Driver

8. Field Work Field team composition:  One team will cover 1 province with exception to Luanda where 5 team will operate.

9. Data Processing and Analysis  Data entry throug: Scanning EYES & HANDS Application  Data analysis by: SPSS

10. Data Processing (DP)  DP team composition: –2 Supervisors –4 Scan operators –10 Reviwerr/keyers –2 Filing/Archiving assistants

11. One Expert during a week From June 27th to July 4th – Expert: Martha Mayer –UNSD Project: Improving Gender Statistics on Employment  Objective: To provide direct techinical assistance to the NSO of Angola (INE) –Statistics on women´s and men´s participation in the informal sector and informal employment; –Revision of the questionnaire and draft of additional questions; –Revision of the tables for dessimination: gender and informal; employment and informal sector issues.

12. 15 th ICLS: Informal sector concept  Informal sector: units engaged in production of goods or services.  Primary objectives: generation of employment and incomes for persons concerned.  Characteristics: low level of organisation; little or no division between labour and capital as factors of productions; small scale; labour relations (if any) based on casual employment, kinship, or personal/social relations rather than contracts with formal guarantees

13. Informal Sector Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS –Does the establishment, instituition, organism where the (Name) works in main job have a trading licence? Yes No Don´t know –How many employees are working in main job? Less than 5 5 -10 11 – 20 21 – 50 51 – 100 More than 100 Don´t know

14. Informal Sector Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS –Does the (Name) in main job work for? Owner account worker without employee Owner account worker with employee Public adminitration Public establishement Private sector Cooperative sector International organism Church and other associations Unpaid family worker People/private residence

15. Informal Sector Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS In main job, are you working as: Permanent worker Temporary worker Seasonal worker Casual worker Where, in main job, the (Name) works? In the owner´s home Private residence In street, via publica In the farm Market, fair Other places

16. Informal Sector Questions to capture informal sector included in the Angola LFS Does the (Name) have formal employment contract? Yes No Don´t know What kind of formal employment contract the (Name) has? Permanent Temporary Does your employer or you contribute to any pension/retirement fund? Yes No Don´t know

17. Informal employment Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS  In this week from ____/___/____ to ____/____/____ did you any work for your household consuption without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)

18. 15th ICLS: Definition of employment in the informal sector  All jobs in informal sector enterprises, or all persons who, during a given reference period, were employed in at least one informal sector enterprise, irrespective of their status in employment and whether it was their main or a secondary job.

19. Informal employment Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS –Does the (Name) in main job work for? Owner account worker without employee Owner account worker with employee Public adminitration Public establishement Private sector Cooperative sector International organism Church and other associations Unpaid family worker People/private residence

20. Informal employment Questions to capture informal employment included in the Angola LFS In main job, are you working as: Permanent worker Temporary worker Seasonal worker Casual worker Does the (Name) have formal employment contract? Yes No Don´t know

21. Gender Issues  To improve measurement of women employment, questions were added in order to detect women activities that may not be perceived as work.  In this week from ____/___/____ to ____/____/____ did you any work for your household consuption without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)  In this week from ____/___/____ to ___/__/___ did you any work without salary, even if it was for only one hour? (examples: prepare food at home to sell, drinking, cakes, commercial farming, help to sell things, fishing, hunting, care animals, etc.)

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