DDI-TZA-NBS-EES-2017-v01 National Bureau of Statistics 2019-11 NADA version 1.0 FORMAL SECTOR EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS SURVEY, 2017 TANZANIA MAINLAND EES 2017 TZA-NBS-EES-2017-V01 National Bureau of Statistcs Copyright: (c) 2019,National Bureau of Statistics NADA Ministry of Finance and Planning Survey Director Enterprise Survey [en/oth] The history of the Employment and Earnings Surveys (EES) in Tanzania goes back to 1963 when the first post-independence survey was launched and this survey is the twelfth after the 2001 EES V0.1 The EESs are conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), as mandated by Statistics Act 2015 and its 2018 and 2019 Amendments, which empowers NBS to collect, compile and disseminate official statistics in the country. The summary is presented for the six main topical areas namely: -Employment Profile; Wage Rates Profile; Cash Earnings Profile; Annual Wage Bill Profile; Newly Recruited Workers; and Job Vacancies Tanzania Tanzania Mainland Regional level Formal establishment The survey covers all formal establishment with employees in both public and private sectors. establishment are divided in three main which are all public sector establishment, all registrated private establishmnent employ at least 50 persons and a sample of registrated of private establishments whose number of employees are from 5-49 persons. Sample survey data [ssd] The EES scope is delimited to formal establishments dealing with any of the economic activities with exception of activities of households as employers and activities of extraterritorial organizations. The survey covers establishments in 26 regions of Tanzania Mainland National Bureau of Statistics The 2017Employment and Earnings Survey is an establishment- based survey which covered a total of 10,896establishments from a frame of 52,429establishments. The frame consisted ofall public establishments and formal private establishments employing 5 persons or above The survey covered all public -sector establishments and private sector establishments with at least 50 employees. Furthermore, the survey covered a sample of private establishments employing 5 to 49 persons. The sampling for this group involved stratifying establishments into those with 5 to 9 employees and those with 10 to 49 employees. Establishments in these strata were further stratified on the basis of their economic activities and ultimately a single stage sampling technique was used to derive representative establishments from each activity using the probability proportion to size (PPS). Face-to-face [f2f] Establishment based questionairre was development in english and was translated in swahili language Training of enumerators was conducted Interveving was conducted by team of suprvisors. The role of supervisor was to cordinate field data collection activity Weight = N/n Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including: a) Office editing and coding b) During data entry c) Structural checking of SPSS data files 81.4 Estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors: 1) non-sampling errors and 2) sampling errors. Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in the implementation of data collection and data processing. Numerous efforts were made during implementation of the EES 2017 to minimize this type of error, however, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically. Confidentarity of respondents is guaranteed by statistics Act No.9 of 2015 before being granted access to the dataset all users have formally agreed National Bureau of Statistics National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) [Tanzania] 2019. Employment and Earnings Survey Report (EES) - 2017. Dodoma, Tanzania: NBS. Tanzania NBS considered three levels of accessibility: 1) Public use files, accessible by all 2) Licensed datasets, accessible under certain conditions 3) Datasets only accessible on location, for certain datasets The dataset has been anonymized and available as a public use dataset. It accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions: 1. The data and other material will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organization without the written agreement of the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics. 2. The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. 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