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Over 18,000 households to be involved in labour force survey
2005-12-30 09:49:14
By Deogratius Kiduduye, PST, Mbeya
A total of 18,520 households countrywide, 11,200 of them in urban areas and the rest in rural areas, will be involved in the Integrated Labour Force Survey (ILFS) to be conducted in the country next year.
Speaking during the opening of a two-week training for the survey’s enumerators in Kyela recently, Kyela District Commissioner, Evarista Kalalu said statistics and data collected from the survey would make an important component of the National Strategy for Economic Growth and Poverty Eradication (MKUKUTA).
’’Statistics and data collected from the ILFS will enable the government to effectively plan for the implementation of MKUKUTA and other development activities,’’ she said.
The DC said the ILFS was among government-initiated surveys conducted every five years aimed at providing qualitative and quantitative data for poverty monitoring and co-ordination as part of MKUKUTA.
She said accurate data collected would put the government’s at a better position to evaluate its past efforts towards poverty alleviation and plan for effective future strategies for the purpose, and added that this was the main reason four more concepts have been added to next year’s survey.
’’The concepts include the general labour force, the informal sector, child activities and time use survey,’’ she said, urging enumerators to ensure they understood the methodologies for conducting the survey so as to achieve the best results.
She also called for Tanzanians who’ll participate in the survey to extend fully co-operation to the enumerators because data collected is for their benefit, as it will be used to bring about development and change in their lives.
One of the training’s facilitators from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Johanssen Kasenene said the government’s decision to carry out the ILFS was necessitated by the lack of data on socio-economic data in the country.
’’The absence of such data would make it extremely difficult for the government to formulate appropriate programmes and allocate necessary resources for improving the situation and eventually solving problems relating to various sectors,’’ he said.
The training, which was facilitated and coordinated by the NBS, attracted 25 male and four female participants from Mbeya, Iringa and Rukwa regions.
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