World Bank Group data on labor supply and employment in Lao PDR. The dataset likely contains indicators on employment, unemployment, and first-time job-seekers, compiled by the International Labour Organization from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. It was last updated on 2026-04-28 and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Modeling labor force participation rates based on employment and unemployment indicators.
- Analyzing social protection policy impacts using demographic and employment data.
- Benchmarking Lao PDR's labor market against regional trends using standardized ILO metrics.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative institutions: the World Bank and the International Labour Organization.
- Compiled from multiple sources including labor force surveys, censuses, and administrative records.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and methodological bias inherent to the source surveys and administrative records.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group, with data compiled by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
- Collection Method
- Compiled from labor force surveys, censuses, establishment censuses and surveys, and administrative records such as employment exchange registers and unemployment insurance schemes.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 05:43:06.948170; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Lao PDR (Laos).