Continuous Household Survey (Encuesta Continua de Hogares).
National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE).
DANE.
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, wages, income, informal sector employment, duration of employment, duration of unemployment, discouraged and occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, educational level, usual activity and second jobs. Special modules have been produced on the following topics: housing, household, health-care social security, voluntary work and work for own consumption, productive household activities, and household expenditure and consumption.
National coverage, with separate estimates by urban and rural areas, major regions and totals by department, in addition to estimates for thirteen cities and metropolitan areas: Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Bucaramanga, Manizales, Pasto, Pereira, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Montería, Cartagena and Villavicencio. Excluded are inhabitants of what were called the national territories prior to the 1991 Constitution, in which approximately 4 per cent of the population live.
Entire resident population.
No.
None.
Continuous and monthly.
Monthly, bimonthly and quarterly.
One week (moving).
One week, four weeks and one year (moving).
One week (moving).
Persons who during the reference period were in one of the following categories:
Persons who during the reference week were in one of the following categories:
persons who were without work during the reference week but had taken steps to seek work during the last four weeks and were available for work;
persons who had taken no steps during the last month but had done so during the last 12 months and have a valid reason for discouragement (for example, there is no work available in the town; they are expecting to be contacted; they do not know how to seek employment; they are weary of looking for work; they cannot find a job suited to their qualifications or skills; they are waiting for the high season; they lack the necessary experience; they do not have resources to set up a business; employers regard them as too young or too old) and they are available for work.
The unemployed are divided into two groups: cesantes, i.e. persons out of work who have previously worked for at least two consecutive weeks, and aspirantes, i.e. persons seeking work for the first time.
Employed persons who want to work additional hours in their main job or in a second job, are available to do so and work less than 48 hours a week. Details of the extra hours they wish to work are also obtained.
Employed persons who want to change the job they currently have in order to make greater use of their skills or training, to increase their income, etc., and are available to do so.
Information is obtained on the number of hours usually worked by the person in his or her main job and hours actually worked during the reference week in the main job and separately in other jobs during that week.
This is composed of remuneration in cash and in kind and income from any second job.
This consists of earnings and income from any second job.
Persons who are: (a) working in establishments, businesses or enterprises which employ up to ten workers at all their branches and agencies; (b) working in domestic service or as unpaid family workers; (c) working on their own account, unless they are professional persons; (d) employers with enterprises having ten workers or fewer (including themselves); (e) not working in the government.
Information is obtained on the activity in which the persons spent most time during the reference week: working; seeking work; studying; carrying out household tasks; other activity; unfit for work.
No information.
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
444 classes, 186 groups, 60 divisions and 17 sections.
ISIC Rev.3.
No information.
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
Coding to two digits but data presented for eight occupational groups.
ISCO-1968.
No information.
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
Private worker/employee; government worker/employee; domestic employee; own-account worker; owner or employer; unpaid family worker.
ICSE-1993.
No information.
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
No schooling; pre-primary; primary; secondary; higher; not stated.
ISCED-1997.
Segments of 10 dwellings each on average.
2,497 segments for thirteen cities, with their metropolitan areas, in each of the quarters of the year.
No information.
National master sample obtained from the survey covered by the 1993 Population and Housing Census.
Digitized cartography is used.
None.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Personal interviews.
Approximately 30,000 households in each quarter of the year and 2,500 households in the national survey.
Three months.
No information.
Staff hired for each survey.
Three supervisors in charge of three enumerators in each of the seven main cities; for the remaining nine cities, two supervisors, each in charge of two enumerators.
No.
4 per cent in the thirteen main cities and metropolitan areas.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
System of Household Surveys, from 1970 to 1975.
In 2000, the Continuous Household Survey (ECH) was designed using the ILO international definitions and definitions of the System of National Accounts.
Boletín Mensual de Estadística, Boletín de Coyuntura Económica, 20 años de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares, Colombia Estadística, Boletines de Prensa (press releases) and Informes de Empleo Tabulados de Cuadros de Salida de Resultados (DANE data banks).
Metodología de Encuesta Nacional de Hogares.
No information.
Yes.
Yes.
Magnetic media and the Internet.
http://www.dane.gov.co/.