National Employment Survey (Enquête nationale sur l’emploi).
Directorate of Statistics (Direction de la statistique).
Directorate of Statistics (Direction de la statistique).
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, wages, employment in the informal sector, duration of employment and unemployment, occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, educational level, other jobs.
Whole country.
Persons aged 15 years. Excluded are persons living in collective households like military barracks, prisons, public work premises, etc.).
Not applicable.
None.
Continuous.
Quarterly and annually.
One day.
One day.
Four weeks.
Persons aged 15 years and over who participated in the production of goods and services for at least one hour during the 24 hours that preceded the interview, and all persons who normally have a job but were temporarily absent from work.
The employed population also includes:
1. persons temporarily absent from work owing to illness or accident, annual leave, maternity or paternity leave, educational or training within the enterprise for a period of less than two mounts with a guarantee of a return to work, labour disputes for a period of less than two months, bad weather, mechanical breakdown, etc.;
2. persons temporarily laid-off without pay who kept a formal job attachment;
3. full-time or part-time workers seeking other work during the reference period;
4. persons who performed some work (for pay or profit) during the reference period but were subject to compulsory schooling, or were retired and receiving a pension, registered as job-seekers at an employment office and receiving unemployment benefit;
5. full-time or part-time students working full or part time;
6. paid and unpaid apprentices and trainees, if they participate in the firm’s production;
7. unpaid family workers who were working during the reference period or were temporarily absent for a period of a less than two months but who kept a formal job attachment;
8. persons engaged in the production of goods for final personal consumption;
9. the armed forces (volunteers, career members and conscripts) and persons on civilian service equivalent to military service.
Persons aged 15 years and over who were without work, were available for work and were seeking for a job, including the discouraged workers.
The unemployed population also includes:
10. persons temporarily absent from work owing to indefinite lay-off without pay or on unpaid leave initiated by the employer;
11. persons without job and immediately available for work who had taken steps to work in a new job at a later data or to establish their own enterprise;
12. persons without job and immediately available for work who were subject to compulsory schooling, or were retired and receiving a pension;
13. full-time or part-time students seeking for a full or part time job;
14. seasonal workers who do not work during the off-season and are not paid during this period.
Persons aged 15 years and over who worked less than 48 hours during the reference week and are available and willing to work additional hours.
Persons aged 15 years and over who worked more than 48 hours during the reference week and are seeking another job or are willing to change the job for one of the following reasons:
(a) the current job is inadequate to their education or qualifications;
(b) the income from their current job is insufficient.
Actual hours worked during the reference week.
Not measured.
Not measured.
No information.
National classification.
Employed and unemployed (industry of the last job for the unemployed).
17 main groups.
ISIC-Rev.3.
National classification.
Employed and unemployed (occupation of the last job for the unemployed).
11 main groups.
ISCO-1988.
National classification.
Employed and unemployed (status in employment of the last job held for the unemployed).
Employees, own-account workers; employers, unpaid family workers, apprentices, partners in or members of cooperatives, persons on training schemes, others.
ICSE-1993.
National classification.
Employed and unemployed.
Preschool, Quran school, primary school 1, primary school 2, secondary school, higher school, other.
ISCED-1976 and ISCED-1997.
Household.
48,000 households out of which 17,000 in rural areas.
1/100.
Population and Housing Census 1994 (Recensement Général de la Population et de l’ Habitat de 1994-RGPH 1994). The survey is based on a two-stage area sample design: the primary units consist of areas of approximately 600 households based on the cartographic maps from the RGPH; the primary units are divided into segments of 25 households.
One-half of the sample is renewed annually.
Partial renewal of the sample.
50 per cent.
Two.
Two years.
Face-to-face interviews conducted using a paper questionnaire.
No information.
One year.
45 minutes per household.
No information.
15 supervisors.
No information.
12 per cent.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Permanent Employment Survey in the Urban Areas 1976 (Enquête permanente sur l’emploi en milieu urbain 1976).
Revisions introduced with the population censuses in 1982 and 1994: modification of the sample frame/design, revision of the questionnaires, etc. The revisions have not resulted in any significant brakes in the historical series.
Activity, employment and unemployment (quarterly); Activity, employment and unemployment: Summary Report (annually); Activity, employment and unemployment: Detailed Report (annually); Statistical Yearbook of Morocco.
Activity, employment and unemployment: Detailed Report (annually).
The quarterly results are published before the end of the 2nd month of the following quarter. Summary report is published in May of the following year.
No information.
Yes, if feasible.
Depending on the request.