UAE launches extensive employment survey

ABU DHABI, Nov. 13 (Chinese media) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched

the first phase of an extensive survey on the country's employment conditions as

part of the government's strategy to build a national statistical system, local

newspaper Gulf News reported on Thursday.

The survey is conducted by the Ministry of Economy in cooperation with the

statistics centers of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the two largest emirates and major

economic units of the Gulf country, according to the report.

The key objectives of the survey are to identify the number of institutions

per sector and economic activity and to identify the workforce volume per

gender, nationality and educational qualification, Minister of Economy Sultan

Bin Saeed Al Mansouri said.

The survey will also evaluate salaries paid according to professional

groups and gender, and identify the number of paid working hours as per

professional groups, sectors, gender and employment numbers.

Thus, it will aid the policy-and-decision-making process by providing data

that complies with international standards and reflects the economic growth of

the UAE, the minister added.

The next phase of the survey will include reviewing data and classifying it

statistically, scheduling it, extracting primary results and preparing the

scientific material and statistical information for publishing.

The UAE, with the second largest economy and the largest GDP per capita in

the Arab world, employs several million foreign workers.