Myanmar

1.Series

Title:

Employment Exchange Statistics.

Starting year:

Circa 1950.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Employment and Training Division.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Department of Labour.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

Registrations are made in Employment Exchanges of the Township Labour Offices, of which there are 78 throughout the country.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Vocational guidance;
  • Job-related training;
  • Other: overseas employment.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    According to the 1959 Employment Restrictions Act all employers employing five or more workers must recruit their workers through the Employment Exchanges of the Department of Labour.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Educational/vocational attainment. No links to ISCED have been established;
  • Current/past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (unit groups level) (the Myanmar Standard Classification of Occupations is based on ISCO-88);
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (unit groups level) (the Myanmar Standard Classification of Occupations is based on ISCO-88);
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 10 groups distinguished. No links to ISIC, rev.3 have been established;
  • Previous registrations with the agency/service;
  • Other: renewal/validation of registration every six months.

    4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Being without work (R);
  • Seeking work (R);
  • Availability for work (R);
  • Age (lower limit: 18 years; upper limit: 60 years) (R);
  • Citizenship (R);
  • Being resident in the country (R);
  • Previously employed (R);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or number of hours of work sought (R).

    5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Death (R);
  • Taking up residency abroad (R);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (R);
  • Commencement of military service (R);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (R);
  • Studying or undergoing training (R);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service for more than six months (R);
  • Refusal of 2 suitable job offers (R);
  • Refusal of 2 suitable training offers (R);
  • Inability to work (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Job-seekers registered at Employment Exchanges.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated monthly.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals).
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for limited audience;

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Central Statistics Organisation.

    Periodicity of publication:

    Annual.

    Series 2:

    Annual data on the number of Employment Exchanges, fresh registrations, persons placed, lapsed register, persons on register at the end of the year, vacancies notified and vacancies outstanding at the end of the year are published by the Central Statistics Organisation in the Statistical Yearbook.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    Not released, available for internal use only.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have not been made with unemployment statistics from other sources.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    Major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures took place in 1959. The resulting changes in the statistics have not been estimated.