Botswana
Title of the survey:
Labour Force Survey (LFS).
Organization responsible for the survey:
Planning and conduct of the survey:
Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Analysis and publication of the results:
CSO.
Topics covered:
Persons currently and usually economically active, employed and unemployed; persons currently underemployed, temporary absent from employment and outside the labour force; persons usually employed with and without some unemployment, persons with some employment and persons usually not economic active; training; income; institutional sector, industry, occupation, status in employment.
Coverage of the survey:
Geographical:
Whole country.
Population groups:
Non-institutional population of age 12 years and over, i.e. persons normally resident in private households. Visitors for less than 14 days and persons living in hotels, prisons, army barracks, etc. are excluded.
Availability of estimates from other sources for the excluded areas/groups:
No information.
Groups covered by the survey but excluded from the published results:
No information.
Periodicity:
Conduct of the survey:
Occasional, i.e. 1995-96 and 1997-98.
Publication of results:
Occasional.
Reference periods:
Employment:
One week prior to the date of the interview.
Seeking work:
One month search period for strict definition. No search needed for expanded definition.
Availability for work:
No information.
Concepts and definitions:
Employment:
Persons who a) performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week; or b) were temporarily absent from work during the reference week because of illness or leave, but were definitely going to return. Included are unpaid family workers in family business. Some work is defined as 1 hour or more during the reference week.
Unemployment:
Strict definition: persons who were without work, currently available for work and who had searched for work during the last month. Expanded definition: persons who were without work and currently available for work.
Underemployment:
Time-related underemployment:
Persons working less than 35 hours who said they were available to work more hours.
Inadequate employment situations:
No information.
Hours of work:
No information.
Employment-related income:
Income from paid employment:
No information.
Income from self-employment:
No information.
Informal sector:
Excluded were all persons working on own or as paid employees in traditional agriculture, as well as those working for local or central government or for enterprises with 5 paid employees or more or which were a registered company or kept a complete set of records. Included, but identified separately, were domestics servants and others working for private households.
Usual activity:
Economically active for 6 months or more of the 12 months reference.
Classifications:
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
Botswana Industrial Classification (BISIC).
Population groups classified by industry:
No information.
Number of groups used for coding:
No information.
Links to ISIC:
ISIC-Rev.3 with extra codes to identify informal activities.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
Botswana Standard Classification of Occupations (BSCO).
Population groups classified by occupation:
No information.
Number of groups used for coding:
No information.
Links to ISCO:
ISCO-88.
Status in employment:
Title of the classification:
National classification, no title given.
Population groups classified by status in employment:
Employed population.
Groups used for classification:
Paid employees; self-employed in traditional agriculture; self-employed outside traditional agriculture, sub-divided into those with paid employees, those without employees and the unpaid family workers.
Links to ICSE:
Yes.
Education:
Title of the classification:
National classification of subject of training.
Population groups classified by education:
No information.
Groups used for classification:
No information.
Links to ISCED:
No information.
Sample size and design:
Ultimate sampling unit:
Household.
Sample size (ultimate sampling units):
11,000.
Overall sampling fraction:
No information.
Sample frame:
The 1991 Population Census, providing 5 urban and 9 rural strata, with a total of 420 sample blocks.
Updating of the sample:
None, but assumed 15 percent population growth.
Rotation:
Scheme:
Not applicable.
Percentage of units remaining in the sample for two consecutive survey rounds:
Not applicable.
Maximum number of interviews per sample unit:
Not applicable.
Length of time for complete renewal of the sample:
Not applicable.
Field work:
Type of interview:
Personal interviews.
Number of ultimate sampling units per sample area:
No information.
Duration of field work:
Total:
Thirteen months.
Per sample area:
No information.
Survey organization:
No information.
Number of field staff:
No information.
Substitution of non-responding ultimate sampling units:
No information.
Estimation and adjustments:
Total non-response rate:
2 percent.
Adjustment for total non-response:
No.
Imputation for item non-response:
No.
Adjustment for areas/population not covered:
Not applicable.
Adjustment for undercoverage:
Not applicable.
Adjustment for overcoverage:
Not applicable.
Adjustment for seasonal variations:
Not applicable.
History of the survey:
Title and date of the first survey:
Botswana Labour Force Survey, 1984/5.
Significant changes or revisions:
No information.
Documentation and dissemination:
Documentation:
Survey results:
No information.
Survey methodology:
1995-96 Labour Force Survey: Technical and Operational Report (March 1998).
Dissemination:
Time needed for initial release of survey results:
No information.
Advance information of public about date of initial release:
No information.
Availability of unpublished data upon request:
No information.
Availability of data in machine-readable form:
No information.
Website:
http://www.cso.gov.bw/cso/.