Full data on employment and unemployment in Kazakhstan to be revealed in Apr 2015

ASTANA. KAZINFORM Statistics Agency will present the full data on employment and unemployment in Kazakhstan, collected by a new technique, in April 2015, Chairman of the agency Alikhan Smailov said at a board meeting.
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"To generate statistical data on employment and unemployment in the context of regions and cities of regional importance since January this year, the agency began to conduct a new survey of the workforce on the basis of an extended network of 218,000 households. Results for 2014 will be published in April 2015, and further this work will be done every year," he noted, the primeminister.kz reports.

He also noted that the agency approved a methodology to determine the number of self-employed, the level of the average monthly income and the number of unemployed in Kazakhstan.

"The main objective of the methodology is to form a structure of self-employed, which allows to determine the categories of self-employed to engage them in productive employment, including - through the mechanisms of the Employment Roadmap 2020; and to provide the participation of the self-employed in pension schemes and social security," the chairman added.

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