However, including these labour force composition indicators does not render the long-term effect of the crisis dummy insignificant.
The surveys collect nationally representative information on a range of labour force and sociodemographic indicators, such as occupation, employment status, earnings, industry and educational attainment.
Surveys collect information via household-based interviews (in person, by mail or by telephone) on a range of labour force and sociodemographic indicators, such as occupation, work status, wages and earnings, industry and educational attainment.
Logistic regression models predicting labour force participation indicated that both conditions had an independent (negative) effect on labour force participation.
As with the labour force characteristics, including sectoral composition indicators does not render the long-term effect of the crisis dummy insignificant.
For example, censuses can provide valuable information on the occupational distribution and other sociodemographic characteristics of the population of economically active age; however, they tend to contain limited information on other indicators of labour force activities.
Indicators on labour force activities capture three main elements: participation (the proportion of individuals with health-related skills currently in the labour force), employment opportunities (the proportion with health-related skills currently employed), and retention (the proportion with health-related skills currently working in a health-related industry).
The UN agency also highlighted a general improvement in the educational level of the world's labour force as it released its latest key indicators of the labour market databases.
With an inadequate labour force, health care delivery is compromised and poor health indicators impact progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in South Africa.
Our results show that whilst the 'objective' indicators of labour market position and conditions (labour force experience, working hours, educational attainment of a woman and her partner, prevalence of part-time work, etc).
