BGD-BBS-LFS-2016-17-v01
DDI-BGD-BBS-LFS-2016-17-v01
BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
Nesstar Publisher
BGD-BBS-LFS-2016-17-v01
Labour Force Survey 2016-2017
LFS 2016-17
BGD-BBS-LFS-2016-17-v01
BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS
Improving of Labour Statistics and Labour Market Information System through Panel Survey
2019-07-03
Nesstar Publisher
Statistics and Informatics Division
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Bangladesh
Sample survey data [ssd]
The Labour Force Survey 2016-17 was conducted Quarterly to provide reliable estimates of the labour force population at the geographic division level with rural-urban breakdown. The labour force component covered the population aged 15 or older living in the sample households to obtain estimates on many variables, particularly in relation to the economic and non-economic activities of the population aged 15 or older in the labour force. The survey involved a sample of 30816 households from 1284 PSUs/sample enumeration areas distributed across all the 64 Districts for each quarter and the ultimate sample households for the year 2016-17 was 123000 in total. The survey covered both urban and rural areas and dwelling households, including one-person households. The institutional households, that is, those living in hostels, hotels, hospitals, old homes, military and police barracks, prisons, welfare homes and other institutions were excluded from the coverage of the survey.
Statistics and Informatics Division
Face-to-face [f2f]
To aid in identification and access to the household, letters of introduction highlighting survey objectives and identification badges were provided to the Enumerators. Enumerators were advised to visit the households to introduce themselves prior to administer the Questionnaire. Supervising officer also sometimes went for courtesy calls to the Households. It took the Enumerators approximately 30-40 minutes to administer the questionnaire depending on the size of the household. Most of the teams managed to collect the data within the stipulated timeframe. Data collection was carried out using personal interview approach. Officers from BBS and outsourcing Enumerators who were involved in this survey were given special training. They visited selected households (HH) to collect information on demography, labour force, non-economic activities using a set of questionnaires. Field checks were undertaken by experienced officers from the BBS & SID to detect and rectify any invalid information occurred during interview session. In addition, follow-up/reinterviews of certain selected households was done to ensure the quality of data collected.
Initial manual editing and coding of industry and occupation classification was done in the BBS headquarters by the selected editors and coders. The supervising officers further checked the questionnaires and validated the data randomly sampled edited questionnaires. Data was captured using Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) through a data entry screen specially created and incorporated with checks to ensure accuracy during data entry. Erroneous entries and potential outliers were then verified and corrected appropriately. A total of 12 data entry personnel were engaged during the exercise. Weights were developed to account for the selection probabilities. The weights were developed using the design weights of the PSUs. The non-response adjustment and urban-rural calibration was also used. The captured data were exported to STATA format for cleaning and analysis. The cleaned data was weighted before final analysis.