After two decades... Survey underway to record unemployment

After two decades… Survey underway to record unemployment

Jul 18, 2017 News

The Bureau of Statistics (BOS), has commenced its quarterly Labour Force Survey, an official told Kaieteur News yesterday.
This survey would come more than two decades after the last survey was done.
The exercise commenced a little over a week ago at the conclusion of a pilot survey last January.
The official told this publication that the survey will be carried out in all of the ten Administrative Regions of Guyana, and it is being supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The population under study for the Guyana Labour Force Survey (GLFS) will include both women and men who are 15 years of age and older, living in private households and are part of the economically-active population.
The GLFS is designed to enable the collection of accurate and updated data on unemployment levels of the economically active population; factors supporting job creation and job destruction; the composition of the labour force in terms of education, gender and other key demographic characteristics of interest; and the movement of persons between areas, reason for movement and types of skill loss incurred.
In a notice published in the Sunday edition of the Kaieteur News, the BOS informed that during this period, its interviewers and other field operatives would be visiting households across the country to collect labour force household information.
The notice also stated that the information provided would be treated confidentially and the usual cooperation of the public would be appreciated.
Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, during a media engagement earlier this year, had stated that in some instances, the GLFS, compared to the Census, will collect data in a more detailed way and with the highest level of regularity, as this will be an on-going survey conducted over four continuous quarters.
The Minister during the commissioning of the new BOS headquarters in Main Street several months ago had noted that the findings of the survey will allow Government to formulate policies.
“This Government has a strong focus and commitment on evidence-based decision making and results-based management, and for quality data to be generated with the required frequency, scale and timeliness,” he said.
Minister Jordan had contended that, “Diagnosing the needs of sectors, regions, and the problems faced by our people requires more than mere intuition and good intentions.”
“We must identify the data needs, collect the data, and use the data to drive a performance budgeting approach to development. Only then will we know whether our programmes are failing or succeeding. Only then can we hold ourselves accountable,”

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