Rwanda: Primary Income: Compensation of Employees for Informal Workers

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Introduction

• The survey targets non-resident and resident cross-border workers, seasonal and other short-term workers who work in a country different from their country of residence.
• It includes seasonal or other short-term workers (less than one year) and border workers who are residents of one economy and work in another economy.
• The survey captures income from border, seasonal, and other short-term workers resident in one economy paid by an employer resident in another economy where those workers are in an employer-employee relationship.
• The survey covers workers who cross Rwanda’s borders to work in neighboring countries and non-residents coming to work in Rwanda.

Scope, Methodology, Compilation Practices, and Data Sources

• Legal framework
  • The survey is carried out by the National Bank of Rwanda in partnership with the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR).
• Scope
  • The survey covers 17 official borders (borders with migration officers) and 39 major crossing points (borders with no presence of migration officers) around the country.
• Methodology
  • The compensation of employees’ survey on informal cross border workers started in 2017 and data are collected on quarterly basis.
  • Field operations: enumerators are recruited and trained on how to use Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) - Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) questionnaires and subsequently deployed to the field.
  • Data transmission: the compensation data are collected and transmitted to the bank server on real-time.
• Compilation practices
  • At the end of the quarter data are aggregated and are used to compile income debits and credits.
• Data sources
  • The data are collected from people crossing the borders to work in other countries or non-residents coming to work in Rwanda.

Annex — Questionnaire (selected items)

• Note
  • The questions are asked to a resident employed in other country and non-resident employed in Rwanda.
  • Only record income earned from the country of work and expenditure in the same country, excluding all income and expenses in their countries of residence.
• Selected questionnaire items and response options:
  • Q1. Where is your home place? |__|
  • 1. Burundi
  • 2. DRC
  • 3. Rwanda
  • 4. Tanzania
  • 5. Uganda
  • Q2. The country of employment? |__|
  • Q3. Ask the type of work |__|
  • 1. Employee (Ukorera abandi)
  • 2. Self – employed (Arikorera)
  • 3. Seasonal worker
  • 4. Other Cross-border worker – please specify
  • Q4. What is your income for the last quarter? |||||||||
  • Q6. Would you tell us/estimate how much you spent where you work in the last quarter? |||||||||

References

• Informal Economy Reports