[lbo-talk] BLS methodology and BDL

Patrick Bond pbond at mail.ngo.za
Mon Apr 3 21:13:46 PDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- From: "tfast" <tfast at yorku.ca>
> BLS:
> To summarize: Employed persons consist of:
> a.. All persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey week.

Travis, do you know the government in your native South Africa is even more explicit. Pretoria's Labour Force Survey includes as 'employment' the following: 'beg[ging] money or food in public. catch[ing] any fish, prawns, shells, wild animals or other food for sale or family food'. So in September 2001, 367,000 workers earned nothing for their labour, while a further 718,000 were paid between R1 and R200 a month (R6.3/US$, but closer to R9/$ in September 2001). The ANC claimed they'd created 1.6 million new jobs in the decade after 1994, with this sort of statistical support.



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