BBS to release quarterly job, labour data

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will divulge indicators on labour market on quarterly basis instead of doing it at several years' intervals.
The government agency has taken the initiative under a donor-aided project for catering regular information on job situation to help policymakers in streamlining the labour market.
But many experts concerned expressed their doubt on whether the national statistical organisation will be able to do it every three months, as it lacks adequate capacity.
BBS wants to release its maiden labour-force estimations - rate of employment, unemployment, new job creation, wages and so on - from the third quarter (July-September) of this calendar year.
The organisation will organise a daylong workshop today (Wednesday) at its headquarters in the city in preparation for implementing the agenda successfully.
Md Kabir Uddin Ahmed, a joint director at BBS Industry and Labour Wing, hoped that they will be able to release the first quarterly labour market-related data sometime in October that will cover the country's July-September job status. "Our enumerators have already been appointed. We're now proceeding fast towards July-September survey," he told the FE.
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