ESO asks for public cooperation on labour survey

(CNS): The Economics & Statistics Office (ESO) has announced that it will be staring work on the annual Labour Force Survey on Sunday. The office appealed to the public to cooperate with the trained interviewers who will be randomly calling on selected samples of households across all three Cayman Islands over the next four weeks to conduct interviews. The ESO asked those people who are visited to provide the necessary information, which will be collected under the Statistics Law. Each interviewer will work under an Oath of Secrecy, and all information collected will be kept strictly confidential,” officials said.

“No information is ever entered which would allow anyone to be able to link the data with an individual respondent.  All interviewers carry a photo identification which should be worn for easy visibility, and respondents are advised to request identification from any interviewer before sharing information,” the office stated in a release.

The information provided for the LFS will be used for estimating the Islands’ 2012 labour force statistics, such as the unemployment rate.

The data will also be used in estimating household size and in making a projection of the country’s population. It is also expected that this year’s LFS will enable the ESO to estimate the so-called “underemployment rate” or the proportion of the labour force already working for less than 30 hours who nonetheless seek for additional work.  

Further information on any aspect of the survey, or results of previous surveys, or a sample of the 2012 LFS Questionnaire and the Interviewer’s Manual contact the Economics & Statistics Office at 949-0940 or visit www.eso.ky.