"FREQUENCY_UNIT_INDICATOR_CW"
CW: indicates whether the file contains cross-walked district codes or not. Absence of "CW" postfix indicates the absence of crosswalked district codes
crosswalked dataset are used to compare throughout timelines as it has been treated for changes in region border changes
non-crosswalked dataset are used for analysis for one point of time

Data Source:The National Labor Force Survey Indonesia (Sakernas), processed by LPEM FEB UI
Last Update: 31 August 2020



"The unemployment rate is the unemployed population divided by the labor force multiply by 100% at the district level, province level, and national level. Some periods of years may use different definitions of unemployed and employed as described below:

From 2016 until 2020, the unemployed population includes those who are unemployed but actively searching for work, or unemployed and not searching for work with reasons of desperation (discouraged workers), or have been accepted for work but have not started it, or already established a new business but have not started it. The employed population includes those who are employed in the last week at least one hour continuously, or who running their business, or who helping relatives business, or who already have a job or business but in the last week, they did not do it.

From 2001 until 2015, the unemployed population includes those who are unemployed but actively searching for work, or unemployed and not searching for work with reasons of desperation (discouraged workers), or have been accepted for work but have not started it. The employed population includes those who are employed in the last week at least one hour continuously, or who already have job or business but in the last week, they did not do it.

From 1996 until 2000, the unemployed population includes those who are unemployed but actively searching for work, or unemployed and not searching for work with a reason of desperation (discouraged workers). In 1993 and 1994, the unemployed population are those who were unemployed but actively searching for work.  

The definition of Labor Force is unchanged since 1993 until 2020 which is people who are employed or unemployed. These data are collected from The National Labour Force Survey (Sakernas) module from 1993-2020, except for 1995 because there was no survey in that particular year and 2016 because only province level is available.
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