Employment organizations go where the jobs are as economy changes

he United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched the first phase of an extensive survey on the country's employment conditions as part of the government's strategy to build a national statistical system, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Thursday.

    The survey is conducted by the Ministry of Economy in cooperation with the statistics centers of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the two largest emirates and major economic units of the Gulf country, according to the report.

    The key objectives of the survey are to identify the number of institutions per sector and economic activity and to identify the workforce volume per gender, nationality and educational qualification, Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri said.

    The survey will also evaluate salaries paid according to professional groups and gender, and identify the number of paid working hours as per professional groups, sectors, gender and employment numbers.

    Thus, it will aid the policy-and-decision-making process by providing data that complies with international standards and reflects the economic growth of the UAE, the minister added.

    The next phase of the survey will include reviewing data and classifying it statistically, scheduling it, extracting primary results and preparing the scientific material and statistical information for publishing.

    The UAE, with the second largest economy and the largest GDP per capita in the Arab world, employs several million foreign workers.

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Employment organizations go where the jobs are as economy changes