Labor and Employment

Some Data for Labour and Employment, 1996-2011

Unit: person

Serial number	Items	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
1	Demand labour market	4 412	3 889	2 293	2 399	3 529	2 219	2 383	1 747	4293*	387	1 515	70722	121 391	90 538	51 008	71229
	Demand general													58 167	78 804	30 740	39 118
	Demand for work in abroad													63 224	11 734	20 268	32 111
2	Apply for job	261	240	256	246	103	284	329	193	159	510	455	18427	26 687	8 813	239 841	7 464
	General applicants	90	168	126	173	21	213	329	193	159	510	455	52295	…	8 813	-
	Students completed studies	171	72	130	73	82	71	…	…	…	…	…	…	…		-
3	Placement	92	124	124	140	75	211	19	10	14	265	236	12532	74 992	214 949	239 271	56 660
	General applicants	85	94	73	81	15	140	19	10	14	265	236	21099	72 829	210 922	218 995	23 072
	Students completed studies	7	30	51	59	60	71	…	…	…	…	…	…
4	Labour supply to work in abroad	…	69 702	71 002	71 658	83 485	89 405	91 034	98 557	101 476	109 698	92 561 *	8580	2 163	4 027	20 262	33 588
4	Labour in industry and handicraft area												105329	121 979	125 061	-	37 755
5	Foreign labour													22 699	17 083	17 527	21 413
	Demand foreign labour market													7 559	…	-	24 227
	Number of foreign labour licence													13 164	7 491	-	11 562
	Number of foreign labour registration													12 308	9 416	12 840	16 919
	Number of foreign labour extend													10 391	7 667	4 687	44 94

Source: Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Labour allocation enterprise, Ministry of Industry-Handicraft

Remark :

1. Demand of labour has been requested from 3 countries: Thai, Malaysia, Japan. Which needs Lao labourer to work in there countries.

2. Job upplication has been obtained from Ministry of labour and social welfare, the figure may be under reported and may not be national representative.

3. The figure of labourers in Industrial sector and handicraft is closed to the estimate in population census 2005 was 118 000.

Employee

Number of Employed in the 2005

Code		Employed	Female(%)	Male(%)
1	Government employee	168 388	31	69
2	Parastatal employee	11 446	33	67
3	Gov_Private employee	121 786	40	60
4	Government employee	19 486	27	73
5	Employer	7 210	31	69
6	Own account Worker	1 149 906	32	68
7	Unpaid family Worker	1 260 671	71	29
	Total	2 738 893	50	50

Source: Results from the Population and Housing Census 2005, NSC, CPI

Percent of Disable Pesons Age 15-64 year

Percent of Disable Persons Age 15-64 year Old

By Type of Categories

Unit: Pe

Act. Code	Categories	Disable person aged 15-64 year old	Percent
1	Government Employee	934	2.3
2	Parastatal Employee	58	0.1
3	State Enterprise Employee	482	1.2
4	Private Employee	75	0.2
5	Employer	65	0.2
6	Own Account Worker	13 850	34.6
7	Unpaid family Worker	11 137	27.8
8	Unemployed	1 471	3.7
9	Student	937	2.3
10	Household duties/Housewife	2 086	5.2
11	Pention/sick/too old	4 981	12.4
12	Others	2 549	6.4
98	NS	955	2.4
99	Don't know	467	1.2
	Total	40 047	100

Source: Population and Housing Census 2005, DoS, MPI