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Title of the survey

Industrial Survey

Organization responsible

Department of Statistics.

Periodicity of the survey

Annual.

Objectives of the survey

To provide data on the industrial sector: number of establishments, kind of activity, number of employees and their compensation, production, expenditure, etc.

Main labour topics covered by the survey

Employment and compensation of employees, obtained as a by-product of industrial statistics.

Reference period

The whole calendar year.

Coverage of the survey

Geographical

The whole country.

Industrial

Mining, manufacturing, electricity and industrial services.

Establishments

All types and sizes of establishments.

Persons

All persons engaged.

Occupations

Data are not collected by occupation.

Concepts and definitions

Employment

All persons engaged include all persons working in or for the establishment, i.e. working proprietors and working directors, unpaid employees (unpaid family workers and other unpaid workers) and paid employees, i.e. persons who contribute to the production, whether they receive a wage or a salary. Excluded from all persons engaged are apprentices and trainees, home workers, commission agents and persons on temporary military service. Paid employees (i.e. employees) include:

wage earners, i.e. persons who receive a wage usually computed on a daily basis,
salaried employees, i.e. workers receiving a monthly salary,
permanent workers, i.e. persons who work throughout the whole year and are included in the registers,
temporary workers, i.e. seasonal workers,
part-time workers, i.e. persons who work for just a part of the regular working hours,
production workers, i.e. persons who work on machines or related equipment,
clerical and administrative employees, i.e. directors, accountants, typists and other clerks,
other workers, i.e. employees not included above, such as guards, sanitary personnel, janitors, drivers, etc.

Compensation of employees

This includes all payments made to or on behalf of the workers, in cash and in kind, as well as employers' contributions to social security and assimilated schemes, i.e.:

total wages and salaries in cash;
employers' contributions to social security and assimilated schemes;
payments in kind, which include payments of food, housing, clothes, transportation, medical services, social services, entertainment services and free tickets;
other fringe benefits: medical insurance, occupational injury and life insurance, termination payments and assimilated benefits.

Data on compensation of employees cover all persons engaged.

Hours of work

Data are collected on normal hours of work, fixed by labour laws and regulations. Statistics of normal hours of work are not compiled. The measurement unit for compensation of employees is the whole calendar year.

International recommendations

The concept of compensation of employees follows the United Nations guidelines for industrial statistics and contained in the System of National Accounts.

Classifications

Components of labour cost / compensation of employees

Not applied.

Industrial

The survey data are classified according major divisions 2, 3 and 4 of the International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (ISIC), Rev.2, 1968. They are collected at the four-digit level, and published at the three-digit level of this classification.

Occupational

Not relevant.

Others

None.

Sample size and design

Statistical unit

The establishment and the kind-of-activity unit.

Survey universe / sample frame

This is obtained from the records of the Industrial Census, maintained by the Ministry of Industry. The Industrial Census takes place every four years. The basic frame is updated at the end of each year to take into account newly recorded establishments, as well as closing or changes in economic activity of establishments.

Sample design

The survey follows a two-phase design: it provides for complete coverage of all establishments in electricity and all establishments with 20 or more persons engaged in mining and manufacturing; and it is conducted on a sample basis for establishments with less than 20 persons engaged. The sample is stratified by size class and region and a simple random sample is drawn with the following sampling rates:

establishments with five to 19 employees: 20 to 22 per cent;
establishments with less than five employees: 7.5 per cent.

Altogether, the survey covers some 1380 establishments. The sample is updated once a year, on the basis of new registrations and disappearance of establishments, as recorded by the Ministry of Industry.

Field work

Data collection

This takes place in March of each year. Data are collected by personal inverviews conducted by temporarily recruited enumerators.

Survey questionnaire

This is designed to collect information and data on:

the characteristics of each establishment (name, location, type of ownership and organization, capital, etc.),
the number of persons engaged by category and sex,
compensation of employees by detailed components,
value of output, cost of materials, supplies, energy consumed, non-industrial services, etc., value added and other industrial data.

Substitution of sampling units

In case of total non-response from a sampled establishment, the unit is replaced by another similar unit of the same region, economic activity and size class.

Data processing and editing

The survey responses are edited both in the office and through field work. They are processed both manually and by computer and consistency checks are made. In case of missing or inconsistent data, responding establishments are contacted by the statistical supervisors who achieve the editing.

Types of estimates

Totals for the reference year. In the estimates of employment, part-time workers are converted to full-time equivalents.

Construction of indices

Index numbers are not constructed.

Weighting of sample results

As regards the sample part of the survey, the survey results are multiplied by the reciprocal of the sampling fraction.

Adjustments

Non-response

None.

Other bias

None.

Use of benchmark data

Not relevant.

Seasonal variations

Not relevant.

Indicators of reliability of the estimates

Coverage of the sampling frame

Total coverage is aimed at through regular updating of the frame.

Sampling error / sampling variance

Approximately 0.0125.

Non-response rate

Approximately 0.002.

Non-sampling errors

Not available.

Conformity with other sources

The survey results are checked against the units' inputs and outputs of the previous year.

Available series

number of enterprises, total employees, total number of paid and unpaid employees (i.e. total number of persons engaged and total number of employees),
total compensation of employees,
totals of value added, output, cost,etc.,

by industrial activity at the three-digit level of ISIC.

History of the survey

The survey was first conducted in 1959. In 1987, the survey questionnaire was modified to serve all future statistical purposes. Every four years, the Industrial Survey is replaced by an Industrial Census. The latest one was conducted in 1992. Since 1992, the survey data are classified according to ISIC Rev.3.

Documentation

Department of Statistics: Annual Industrial Survey (annual, Amman). idem: Statistical Year Book (annual, ibid.). Data can also be made available on diskette.

Confidentiality / Reliability criteria

The publication and release of data are subject to confidentiality rules, whereby tables may not reveal any of the particulars of individual establishments.

Other information

Data supplied to the ILO for publication

Data on paid employment in manufacturing, by major group of industry, are published in Table 5B of the Yearbook of Labour Statistics.