Manpower Survey Series (ICPSR 35627)

Principal Investigator(s):
Department of Census (Taiwan); Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (Taiwan)

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Summary

The manpower statistics take households as a base and utilize sampling surveys to collect basic data such as quality, quantity, labor force structure, employment, unemployment, reasons of unemployment, and composition of those not in labor force among the civilian population ages 15 and above. The first formal survey was started in January 1978. The geographic scope of this survey covers Taiwan Province and municipalities. A stratified two-stage random sampling is schemed to sample households for this survey: sample units drawn in the first stage of sampling are TSUN/LIs, while those drawn in the second stage are households. Through face-to-face interviews or telephone interviews, the sampled households are surveyed by well-trained interviewers who are recruited and assigned by local governments. Conducted once a month in the week right after a reference week, this survey is to record events occurred in the reference week covering the 15th day of the month.

To meet the requirements of other government agencies in their manpower management and socioeconomic policy enforcement and decision-making, supplementary surveys have been conducted, using the same sample, to collect more detailed data such as "Manpower Utilization Survey" and "Women's Marriage, Fertility and Employment Survey". In addition, Manpower Utilization Survey is a both quasi-longitudinal and cross-sectional study. Because each household is surveyed twice and then replaced, approximate a half of the final sample in two consecutive years can be incorporated. Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA) incorporates the data collecting from the same sample in two consecutive years into another new dataset. In spite of only two time points, an aggregation of the incorporated datasets with the characteristics similar to longitudinal panel study are named as "Manpower Utilization Quasi-Longitudinal Survey Database". The requirements of sample incorporation provided by SRDA include household, same-sex, age at the second wave that equals to the first wave plus one, and education level at second wave that is the same or higher than the first wave.

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