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Employment-to-population ratio
Introduction
To monitor the MDG indicators in Burundi ,
the ministry of planning established a
committee since 2006 to assist the national
statistical institute. The committee adopted a
list of 181 additional indicators to the MDGs
to monitor at regular basis.
Conditions for additional indicator
clear and easy to interpret ;
Accepted and used by the government (PRSP
1 or 2 or used by a ministry or any institution
engaged in the national development) and
other partners;
Feet the international standards,
recommendations and best practices;
Has a recognized source, quantifiable and
consistent.
Contribution of the MDGs monitoring committee
The committee produced a report on the definitions,
concepts, classifications and data sources for indicators
used to monitor the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals and the additional indicators.
For each additional indicator , a process of consultation
between the Committee members was undertaken in
collaboration with the Institute of Statistics and Economic
Studies of Burundi (ISTEEBU) which is the repository for
official data.
The list of indicators provided has been integrated in
Burundinfo (Burundi socio-economic database).
Metadata availability
The national database did not include metadata
for additional indicators in the beginning. For the
MDGs, we just copy the international metadata.
With the UNSD/DFID project, the Burundinfo
team asked the committee to review their report
and add metadata to all the indicators.
Each indicator has a metadata and the MDGs has
been adapted the national context
Metadata content
For each indicator, we have the following
information :
(i ) a definition ,
(ii) method of computation ,
(iii) the observations and limitations ,
(iv) sources of discrepancies between global and
national figures in some case,
(v) data collection ,
(vi) the treatment of missing data and
( vii ) the availability of data.
Metadata for employment-to-population ratio
Definition
The employment-to-population ratio is the
proportion of the population of a country which is
employed relative to the population of working
age
Method of
It is calculated by dividing the total number of
computation employees above a certain age (at least 15 years in
general) by the population of the same age.
occupied population (employees)
= x 100
working aged population(15-64 years)
Metadata for employment-to-population ratio
The employment-to-population ratio provides information
Observati on the ability of an economy to create jobs and is only a
ons and
quantitative measure. It says nothing about the quality of
limitation the jobs. An increase in the ratio indicates a greater
proportion of the population with a job, has a positive
effect if these jobs are well-paid, productive and safe in
other terms decent. A low ratio means that a large
proportion of the population not directly involved in the
economic activities on the productive market; because it is
either unemployed or outside the labour force.
Determining the working age population may differ from
one study to another. Age considered in different studies
ranges are 15 to 64 years (this group is usually used in
Burundi), 15 years and older, 15-70 years 10 years and
older. Ideally, data should be disaggregated by sex and age
Metadata for employment-to-population ratio
Data
Data are collected through the general census of
collection population and housing, household surveys, surveys of
enterprises, administrative records and sources based
on several official estimates (the two variables must
come from the same source).
Missing
values
The treatment of missing values is done by the
projection data of the general census of population
and housing by exploiting data from the database on
sustainable human development.
Metadata for employment-to-population ratio
1. the working age population ; it is usually 15
sources of
years and older but each country can adopt its
discrepancies age group. For example, in some surveys
between
considered 10 years and older but the
global and
common used age group is 15-64 years.
national
2. the inter census interval (18 years for
figures
Burundi) leads to projections of the labour
force (working age population) with different
assumptions. When using administrative data,
the denominator will be different.