Abstract:
The study is an econometric analysis of the Labour Force Survey data as
obtained in 1992. The survey was conducted in 12 monthly rounds in the island
other than in the Northern and the Eastern provinces. Several publications were
released by Department of Census and Statistics, however no special analysis of
data were carried out. The knowledge on Labour Economics gained through the
MA programme in Labour Studies inspired me to analyse the data with multiple
objectives. While one of the objectives is to fulfil the basic requirement of a
research study and prepare a thesis for the MA programme, another very
important objective was to use the opportunity to evaluate the data in detail and
find the gaps and weaknesses in the survey programme with a view of improving
the programme.
A model based on the Mincer's Earnings Function has been formulate and
tested using the 1992 survey data. The model basically took Earnings of
employees as the dependant variable, while many variables including
demographic variables were taken as dependent variables.
