Labor Market Administrative Records Data

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This dataset contains Saudi Arabia Labor Market Administrative Records Data. Data from General Authority for Statistics. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.

- It is data and information registered and updated with government agencies related to the labor market and generated through the official electronic registration and documentation processes followed in these agencies, which include all residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, General Organization for Social Insurance, and the Center of national information periodically provide the General Authority for Statistics with the data registered with it (data of administrative records are assigned to the last day of the Gregorian quarter of each year).

The following table shows the type of data provided by each entity from the labor market statistics sources:

Data source	Data and indicators
General Organization of Social Insurance	Participants on the job who are subject to social insurance laws and regulations
	New subscribers subject to social insurance laws and regulations
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development	Employees on the job Subject to the rules and regulations of the Civil Service
	Work visas for private sector
National Information Centre	Domestic workers
	work visas issued for government sector and for individuals sector

* Administrative records data has several implications for the labor market, but it is not used statistically to measure unemployment, employment or labor force participation rates

Concepts related to administrative records available at government agencies:

Workers (based on the administrative records):

All working individuals subjected to approved regulations and laws from the regulatory entities of labor market and are registered in the administrative records. On the other hand, workers can be classified in the administrative records based on the regulations and laws they are subjected to as follows:

1- Saudi workers subjected to the laws and regulations of the civil services and working at all governmental institutions and bodies, in other words, workers who hold jobs that are considered within the general budget of the country, also subjected to the civil retirement system (males or females) employees, as well as non-Saudis contractors who fill these positions in accordance the regulations of non-Saudis employment.
2- Participants on the job who are subject and regulations of social insurance as well as labor system, which includes Saudis and non-Saudis.
3- Domestic workers: non-Saudis workers from both genders who work in houses, including servants, cleaners, cooks, waiters, drivers, guards, nurses, and private teachers.

Administrative data on the labour market do not include the following categories:

1- Workers of military and security sectors
2- Workers who are not registered in the civil service and social insurance records, which include:
              - Saudis working for their own businesses and are not subjected to the labor regulations, also, not registered in social insurance, such as: those who work in delivery through electronic apps
             - Saudi employers who work in establishments and not registered in the social insurance
             - Non-Saudi staff working in foreign international, political or military missions
3- Non-Saudi employees who come to the Kingdom for work that normally takes less than three months to be completed.

The National Classification of the Economic Activities:

It is a statistical classification based on ISIC4 which is the reference of the productive activities.

Saudi classification of professions:

It is a statistical classification which is based on ISCO that provides a system to classify and collect professions’ information where they can be obtained by statistical surveys, census and administrative registers.

Saudi classification for majors and educational levels:

It is a statistical classification that is based on ISCED which is the reference for organizing educational programs and related qualifications based on the education levels and fields.

Domestic worker data from NIC

The public sector includes those subject to civil service regulations and government employees subject to insurance regulations (GOSI)

There are cases for subscribers working on more than one job in different professions, so they may be counted more than once depending on the subscription, not the Participant.

(1) Primary includes: a one-year diploma after primary school, one year and six months diploma after primary school, and a two-year diploma after primary school.
(2) Diploma after Intermediate includes: diploma after intermediate , one year diploma after intermediate , one and a half years diploma after intermediate , two years diploma after intermediate , two and a half years diploma after intermediate , and a 3-year diploma after intermediate .
(3) Diploma under University includes: diploma after high school, diploma one year after high school, two years diploma after high school, two years and six months after high school diploma, three years diploma after high school and one year and six months diploma after high school.
(4) The undergraduate level includes: a three-year and six-month diploma after high school and a bachelor's.
(5) Higher Diploma / Master Degree includes: diploma one year after university and diploma in one year and six months after university , two years diploma after university and A two-year and six-month diploma after university and a three-year diploma after university and masters.
Others include: Diploma after Primary, post-university diploma, fellowship, and diploma after masters.

Data do not include employees in the security and military sectors and non-registered in the records of GOSI, MHRSD

* Data of the GOSI , MHRSD is preliminary data

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