Labor Market Panel Survey, JLMPS 2010 - Jordan

Abstract --------------------------- The JLMPS 2010 offers significant advantages over the regular Employment and Unemployment (EUS) survey conducted quarterly by the Department of Statistics (DOS). Although it is only the first wave of what is to be a longitudinal survey, it contains a number of retrospective questions that allow us to reconstruct entire employment trajectories rather than simply get a snapshot of a single point in time. The main advantage of this approach is that it allows for the examination of flows into various segments of the labor market and not simply stocks over time. The JLMPS 2010 data also offers significant advantages over the EUS in its ability to identify informal employment in its various guises, including wage and salary employment without contracts or social insurance and self-employment and unpaid family employment. It also offers a more detailed view of employment conditions including paid and unpaid leaves, the presence of health insurance, hours of work, and the type and size of economic unit in which the worker is employed. Since JLMPS 2010 has the same sampling strategy as the EUS it focuses exclusively on the population residing in regular households rather than in collective residential units. This makes it equally likely as the EUS to under-sample the foreign worker population in Jordan. Geographic coverage --------------------------- The sample was designed to provide estimates of the indicators at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for all regions. Analysis unit --------------------------- 1- Households. 2- Individuals. Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- In the 2010 wave our strata were the 12 governorates and five different location classifications: (1) basic urban (2) rural (3) large central city urban, including Amman, Zarqa, and Irbid, (4) suburban Amman and Zarqa and (5) exurban Zarqa. The 2010 wave captured 5,102 households and 25,953 individuals. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] Research instrument --------------------------- The JLMPS 2010 data was collected through the following three questionnaire forms: (1) Household questionnaire, which includes: · Household identifying information · Household roster · Housing and assets (2) Individual questionnaire, which includes: · Father's characteristics · Mother's characteristics · Siblings characteristics · Education · Employment · Unemployment · Subsistence and domestic work · Job characteristics · Secondary job · Women's employment · Fertility · Women's status · Cost and characteristics of marriage · Labor market history · Return migration · Wage earnings (3) Enterprise questionnaire, which includes: · Remittances/Transfers · Other income sources · Household non-farm enterprises · Household non-farm enterprise employment · Agricultural assets · Access to credit