Formal Sector Employent and Earnings Survey 2018/2019
Tanzania, 2018 - 2019
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TZA-2018-2019-FSEES-v01-M
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Identification
Survey ID Number
TZA-2018-2019-FSEES-v01-M
Title
Formal Sector Employent and Earnings Survey 2018/2019
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Zanzibar,Tanzania | TZA |
Study type
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
Series Information
Formal Sector Employment and Earnings is an annual survey conducted by the Office of the Chief Government Statistician, Labour Statistics Unit under Social Statistics Section.
Abstract
Formal Sector Employment and Earnings is an annual survey conducted by the Office of the Chief Government Statistician, Labour Statistics Unit under Social Statistics Section. The main objective of the survey is to provide information on employment and earnings of employees to be used for planning, policy formulation, and in decision-making processes. The specific objectives were to obtain the total number of employees of formal establishments from both government and private sectors, to obtain annual and average salaries paid to employees, wage bills used for employees, also to obtain the total number of new worker employed, number of new vacancies available, number of retired and fired/quit employees. The survey collects information on employees, such as total number, sex, citizenship, employment term, earnings, allowances and other benefit paid to employees.
This report illustrates the methods and findings of the survey. It consists of six chapters, namely:Concept, Definition and Survey Methodology, Employment, Wage rate, Cash earnings, Wage bill,
New Employees, retired and fired/quit employees.
Employment
The total employment in formal sector was 62,804 out of whom 34,988 (55.7 percent) were males and 27,816 (44.3 percent) were females. Out of total employment, 51.5 percent were engaged in Government sector, 38.2 percent in Private sector and 10.3 percent in Parastatals.
Classification by terms of employment reported that 61.7 percent (38,750 employees) were regular employees. Contractual and casual employees comprised 34.7 percent (21,782 employees) and 3.6 percent (2,272 employees) respectively. Non-citizen employees account for only 1.3 percent of total employment.
The distribution of employment by industry shows that about 26.8 percent of employees were engaged in Education sector while 19.7 percent were in Accommodation and food services activities. The industry with the least number of employees was real estate which has 0.2 percent of total employment.
Wage Rate
Most (37.9 percent) of regular citizen employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per months. About 40 percent of the government and 43.3 percent of private sector regular citizen employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 while 41.9 percent of parastatals employees earn 600,000 and above per month. Both male and female regular citizen employees account for 39.0 and 36.8 percent earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per month respectively.
Cash Earnings
The average monthly salary of regular citizen employees was TZS 530,651 per month where males earn TZS 542,156 and females earn TZS 520,421 per month. The average monthly salary of Parastatal employees was observed to be TZS 701,524; the private employees’ average salary was 565,308 while for Government employees it was 501,810.
Annual Wage Bill
According to this survey, the annual wage bill is the employers cost which includes annual salary, free rations and other benefits. The percentage share of annual salary was high compare with percentage share of other benefit and free rations. On average, the percentage share of annual salary from the total wage bill was 75.4 percent while the percentage share of other benefits was 20.8 percent.
New Employees, Retired and Fired/Quit
The total number of employees employed in 2018/19 was 3,332 persons of whom 1,648 employees(49.5 percent) were males and 1,684 employees (50.5 percent) were females. Out of total new employees, 54.7 percent were employed in the Government sector, 9.4 percent in Government Parastatals and 35.9 percent in the Private sector.
However, the result shows that, the total number of retired employees in 2018/19 was 994 persons of whom 781 persons were in Government sector, 109 persons in Government Parastatals and 104 persons in the Private sector. In addition, the proportions of male fired/quit employees were higher than female employees in all sectors.
This report illustrates the methods and findings of the survey. It consists of six chapters, namely:Concept, Definition and Survey Methodology, Employment, Wage rate, Cash earnings, Wage bill,
New Employees, retired and fired/quit employees.
Employment
The total employment in formal sector was 62,804 out of whom 34,988 (55.7 percent) were males and 27,816 (44.3 percent) were females. Out of total employment, 51.5 percent were engaged in Government sector, 38.2 percent in Private sector and 10.3 percent in Parastatals.
Classification by terms of employment reported that 61.7 percent (38,750 employees) were regular employees. Contractual and casual employees comprised 34.7 percent (21,782 employees) and 3.6 percent (2,272 employees) respectively. Non-citizen employees account for only 1.3 percent of total employment.
The distribution of employment by industry shows that about 26.8 percent of employees were engaged in Education sector while 19.7 percent were in Accommodation and food services activities. The industry with the least number of employees was real estate which has 0.2 percent of total employment.
Wage Rate
Most (37.9 percent) of regular citizen employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per months. About 40 percent of the government and 43.3 percent of private sector regular citizen employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 while 41.9 percent of parastatals employees earn 600,000 and above per month. Both male and female regular citizen employees account for 39.0 and 36.8 percent earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per month respectively.
Cash Earnings
The average monthly salary of regular citizen employees was TZS 530,651 per month where males earn TZS 542,156 and females earn TZS 520,421 per month. The average monthly salary of Parastatal employees was observed to be TZS 701,524; the private employees’ average salary was 565,308 while for Government employees it was 501,810.
Annual Wage Bill
According to this survey, the annual wage bill is the employers cost which includes annual salary, free rations and other benefits. The percentage share of annual salary was high compare with percentage share of other benefit and free rations. On average, the percentage share of annual salary from the total wage bill was 75.4 percent while the percentage share of other benefits was 20.8 percent.
New Employees, Retired and Fired/Quit
The total number of employees employed in 2018/19 was 3,332 persons of whom 1,648 employees(49.5 percent) were males and 1,684 employees (50.5 percent) were females. Out of total new employees, 54.7 percent were employed in the Government sector, 9.4 percent in Government Parastatals and 35.9 percent in the Private sector.
However, the result shows that, the total number of retired employees in 2018/19 was 994 persons of whom 781 persons were in Government sector, 109 persons in Government Parastatals and 104 persons in the Private sector. In addition, the proportions of male fired/quit employees were higher than female employees in all sectors.
Kind of Data
Administrative records data [adm]
Unit of Analysis
Establishment
Version
Version Description
- v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
Version Date
2019-03
Scope
Notes
The survey covers only formal sector employment categorized by industry in accordance with the International Standard of Industrial Classification (ISIC) Revision 4 of the standard definitions and classification. The survey also uses Tanzania Standard Classification of Occupation (TASCO) codes revised from ISCO 1988 in classifying employees by occupation. The scope of Formal Sector Employment and Earnings Survey 2018/2019 includes Identification, Description of business, Employment and earnings as at 30 june 2019, Wage rate of permanent employees, Workers with disability, The distribution of permanent employees according to the their experiences, Casual workers, Benefits, Number of new workers employed during the last 12 months, and Current job vacancies for the last 12 months ( july 2018 - june 2019).
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
Zanzibar
Universe
The survey covered Government, Parastatal institutions as well as registered Private establishments.
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| The Office of Chief Government Statistician | Ministry of Finance and Planning |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
Not included in the report
Deviations from the Sample Design
Not included in the report
Response Rate
Not included in the report
Weighting
Not included in the report
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2018-07-02 | 2019-06-29 |
Data Collection Mode
Mail Questionnaire [mail]
Supervision
Not included in the report
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| The Office of Chief Government Statistician | OCGS | Ministry of Finance and Planning |
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Not included in the report
Data Processing
Data Editing
Not included in the report
Other Processing
Not included in the report
Data Appraisal
Estimates of Sampling Error
Not included in the report
Data Appraisal
Not included in the report
Access policy
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of data management division | The Office of Chief Government Statistician | abdullah.makame@ocgs.go.tz | www.ocgs.go.tz |
Confidentiality
Confidentiality of respondent guaranteed under Statistical Act No.9 of 2007
The Chief Government Statistician may disclose information in the form of individual statistical records solely for bona fide research or statistical purposes provided that:-
a) All identification such as name and address has been removed.
b) The information is disclosed in a manner that is not likely to enable the identification of the particular person or undertaking or bussiness to which it relates.
Access conditions
Office of Chief Government Statistician considered three levels of accessibility:
1) Public use files, accessible by all
2) Licensed datasets, accessible under certain conditions
3) Datasets only accessible on location, for certain datasets
Any person or organization to whom any statistical records are disclosed shall:-
a) Not attempt to identify any particular person or undertaking or business;
b) Use the information for research or statistical purpose only;
c) Not disclose the information to any other person or organization;
1) Public use files, accessible by all
2) Licensed datasets, accessible under certain conditions
3) Datasets only accessible on location, for certain datasets
Any person or organization to whom any statistical records are disclosed shall:-
a) Not attempt to identify any particular person or undertaking or business;
b) Use the information for research or statistical purpose only;
c) Not disclose the information to any other person or organization;
Citation requirements
" The Office of Chief Government Statistician, Formal Sector Employment and Earnings Survey (FSEES 2018/2019), Version 2.1 of the public use dataset (March 2020), provided by the National Data Archive. www.ocgs.go.tz"
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Government Statistician | The Office of Chief Governent Statistician | zanzstat@ocgs.go.tz | www.ocgs.go.tz |
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that, The Office of Chief Government Statistician is the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) 2018/2019, The Office of Chief Government Statistician
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI-TZA-2018-2019-FSEES-v01-M-OCGS
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Office of Chief Government Statistician | OCGS | Ministry of Finance and Planning | Documentation of the study |
Date of Metadata Production
2023-11-17
DDI Document version
Version 1.0