Tanzania, United Rep. of

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

2002.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Labour Exchange Centre.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Labour, Youth and Sports Development.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In the city of Dar-es-Salaam.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;

Assisting employers to find workers;

Vocational guidance.

3.The following information is registered about a person:

Name;

Sex;

Address of usual residence;

Date of birth;

Citizenship;

Nationality/ethnic group;

Educational/vocational attainment, with 6 categories distinguished;

Current/past activity status, with 3 categories distinguished;

Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with 10 groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;

Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 10 groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;

Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;

Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with an unspecified number of groups distinguished. Links to ISIC, rev.3 have been established (level not specified);

Other: kind of employment positions desired (5 kinds); date of referral to the employer; language skills.

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);

Being resident in the country (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 (and satisfied by that job) (R);

Commencement of military service (R);

Studying or undergoing (long) training (R);

Inability to work (due to disability) (R).

6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

The broad definition "being available for work" is used.

The following categories of the currently unemployed are produced:

Unemployment A: Persons currently unemployed who are not only available for work but have taken active steps to find work in the last four weeks;

Unemployment B: Persons unemployed who have not taken active steps to find work in the last four weeks.

7.Updating of the registers

The frequency with which the registers are updated is not specified.

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 general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Ministry of Labour, Youth and Sports Development.

Title and periodicity of the publications:

Employment Outlook; Unemployment. (The periodicity of the publications depends on the availability of funds to produce the data).

Series 2:

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

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 general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Ministry of Labour, Youth and Sports Development.

Title and periodicity of the publications:

Employment Outlook; Unemployment. (The periodicity of the publications depends on the availability of funds to produce the data).

10.Methodological information about the statistics

Form of release:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for the release:

Ministry of Labour, Youth and Sports Development.

11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

Comparisons have not yet been made with unemployment statistics from other sources, although it is expected that this will be done in the future.

12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

There have been no major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.

13. Additional remarks

The Labour Exchange Centre was established on 1st July 2001 and processing of data only started at the beginning of 2002, thus certain information concerning these statistics is not yet available.