WV labor, wages survey starts mid-August
The Department of Labor and Employment 6 will conduct the Occupational Wages Survey (OWS) and Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) Integrated Survey (BITS) in 65 selected non-agricultural industries in Western Visayas starting mid-August.
The OWS is a nationwide survey that centers on employment and wage rates of time-rated workers on full time basis in selected occupations while the BITS is a nationwide survey of establishment that aims to generate an integrated data set on employment of specific groups of workers, occupational shortages and surpluses, balancing work and family responsibilities and working time arrangements, occupational safety and health, and occupational injuries and diseases.
The data generated from OWS are useful in wage and salary administration while the data gathered from BITS will serve as inputs to studies on industry trends and practices and bases for the formulation of policies on employment, conditions of work and industrial relations.
DOLE 6 OIC Director Manuel Roldan said the data generated from this survey will very useful to the government in its effort to provide better terms for the workers and to improve conditions in the workplace.
Roldan appealed to human resource managers and owners of the 203 sample establishments in the Region to receive the field enumerators in their workplaces and provide the necessary assistance.
“I would like to request our respondents from the selected industries to provide the necessary assistance to our field enumerators when they go their offices,” he said.
Roldan said the data generated from this survey will be treated with extreme confidentiality.
“I would like to assure our respondents that everything they have disclosed or written in the questionnaires will be kept confidential,” he said. “The data provided will be used solely for statistical purpose and not for taxation, regulation or investigation purposes,” he added.
The DOLE has hired two field enumerators to distribute and retrieve questionnaires, and assist respondents in filling up the questionnaires.
The OWS/BITS is being conducted every two years. The last nationwide survey conducted was in 2008 where Region 6 ranked 1st in Group 2 in terms of accuracy of data collected and timeliness of submission of questionnaires to the BLES.
“This was achieved through the remarkable cooperation of the establishments interviewed, and we hope to achieve the same success as before,” Roldan said.
