LABOUR FORCE and HOUSEHOLD LIVING CONDITIONS SURVEY 2018-2019 in NABATIEH

Labour Force and Household Living Conditions Survey (LFHLCS) 2018-2019 in Nabatieh

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"Labour Force and Household Living Conditions Survey 2018-2019 in Nabatieh", Central Administration of Statistics, 2020

This report comes as one of a series of reports launched by the Central Administration of CAS Central Administration of Statistics Statistics, covering the twenty-six districts of Lebanon. Producing these reports was a GER The Gross Enrolment Ratio collaborative endeavor between the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) and the ILO International Labour Organization United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). LFHLCS Labour Force and Households’ Living Conditions Survey NEET Not in Education, Employment or Training Official statistics presented in this report are drawn from the findings of the national Labour NER The Net Enrolment Rate Force and Households Living Conditions Survey (LFHLCS) that was carried out by CAS NSSF National Social Security Fund between 2018 and 2019 with funding from the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon and the technical cooperation of the Regional Office for Arab States of the SMAM Singulate Mean Age at Marriage International Labour Organization (ILO). UNDP United Nations Development Programme

CAS acknowledges the professional input and contribution of all the partners, experts, and staff who have been particularly active and supportive along the production process in the elaboration, preparation and drafting of the final series of district statistics.

CAS would like to express its sincere appreciation to Celine Moyroud and the UNDP core team for all of their technical and administrative support. Also gratefully acknowledged are the contributions of CAS staff: Haifa Husseini, Mayssaa Daher, Ali Hamieh and Amina Basbouss.

Dr Maral Tutélian - Guidanian

Director General Central Administration of Statistics

Table of Contents List of Figures

About the Survey ...... 1 Figure esidents in abatieh District Statistics ...... 2 Figure Head o household by se I. DEMOGRAPHICS ...... 4 Figure arital status aged by se he residents in abatieh ho and ho any are they Figure istribution o riary residences by tye o delling II. HOUSING ...... 6 Figure riary residences by area o residence here do residents in abatieh live Figure riary residences by nuber o roos riary residences by area Figure ersons er roo Ho any roos does a household have Figure riary residences by age o residence ersons er roo Figure Facilities o ain source o drining ater at the delling re the riary residences old or ne Connectivity to inrastructure and utilities Figure Sources o electricity in riary residences Cost associated ith residence Figure Hoe aliances tyes and eans o transortation Hoe aliances and eans o transortation Figure ccess to services ccess to basic services Figure istribution o students by tye o educational institution III. EDUCATION ...... 12 Figure esidents aged by level o education attained and se ross nrolent atio versus et nrolent ate Figure a lliteracy rate by age grou and se aged years Schooling in abatieh Figure b otal illiteracy rate by se aged years IV. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND ...... 15 Figure Household incoe range ro all sources in the onth receding the Survey in Ho uch do households earn in total thousand L and ho do they erceive their ealth status Figure Sel classiication o ealth o households Health Coverage Figure Health coverage by se V. LABOUR FORCE and EMPLOYMENT ...... 18 Figure esidents aged years by eloyent status and health insurance Labour aret structure coverage ho is loyed Searching or a ob or nactive Fro a ender oint o ie Figure istribution o residents beneiting ro health insurance by source o here do they or insurance and ho any hours er ee Figure Labour orce articiation rate hat tye o obs do they hold and here Figure Labour orce articiation rate aong youth and adults Ho any obs are vulnerable Figure loyenttooulation ratio outh in loyent versus outh ot in ducation loyent or raining Figure loyenttooulation ratio by broad age grous The Team ...... 25 Figure neloyent rate by se Figure neloyent rate aong youth and adults Figure nactivity rate o residents aged years About the Survey Figure conoic activity sector by se his reort coes as one o a series o reorts launched by the Central dinistration o Figure verage usual and actual eely hours o or by se Statistics covering the tentysi districts o Lebanon roducing these reorts as a Figure loyed years and above by eloyent status and se collaborative endeavor beteen the Central dinistration o Statistics CS and the nited ations eveloent rograe Figure ulnerable eloyent icial statistics resented in this reort are dran ro the indings o the national Labour Figure outh in eloyent and rate Force and Households Living Conditions Survey LFHLCS that as carried out by CS beteen and ith unding ro the elegation o the uroean nion to Lebanon and the technical cooeration o the egional ice or rab States o the List of Tables nternational Labour rganiation L

able early eenditures on services or ain dellings in thousand L he LFHLCS is the irst Lebanese survey to roduce estiates not only at the national and subnational governorate mouhafaza levels but also at the district caza able nrolent by level o education in level Lebanon is coosed o eight governorates called ouhaaa and districts called able Forality versus norality in caa nly the governorates o eirut and ar ere taen as a hole in the survey sale and ere not subdivided into districts

LFHLCS covered all the oulation o Lebanon living in riary residential dellings t as carried out ro ril to arch t did not cover the oulation living in non residential units such as construction and agriculture sites shos stores actories uninished buildings ary barracs reugee cas and adacent gatherings and inoral settleents ith an unrecedented colete national sale sie o households ore than resonded to the survey roviding a relatively high resonse rate o hrough uestions organied into odules the LFHLCS uestionnaire gathered etensive data that ere used in the roduction o a broad array o indicators and a cross sectional analysis regarding

 he deograhic and social characteristics o households and the individuals living in the on a regular basis ore than si onths in a year including inoration on education health social security and others  he labour orce situation and the econoic activity o all active individuals in the household

 he characteristics o the household and the conditions o the dellings and the available aenities he concets deinitions and ethodologies that ere used in the survey ere designed according to the latest international survey statistical standards esecially those in line ith the th CLS esolution concerning statistics o or eloyent and labour underutiliation.2

For ore inoration about the LFHLCS reer to the ain survey reort available at httcasgovlbindehcoonentcontentarticleid Source L Resolution concerning statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization, 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, 2013.

Page 1 District Statistics

he district statistics reresent an invaluable source o udated inoration and analysis o the revailing social and econoic conditions in each district hey are ade available to the district authorities and leadershi including the ia Caa overnor the istrict nions o unicialities and a range o other governent and nongovernent district lanners olicy aers and users he district statistics also ai at inoring aroriate and evidencebased develoent olicies and rograes at the district level

his reort resents data ertaining to the district o abatieh hich is situated in the overnorate o abatieh

t consists o ive chaters highlighting the olloing asects BAALBEK-HERMEL eograhics

Housing

ducation

Social and conoic acground

Labour Force and loyent

herever ossible and statistically signiicant the indicators resented at the district level are coared to the national values or the urose o contetualiation and coarison

BINT JBEIL HASBAYA

MARJAAYOUN

NABATIEH

Page 2 Page 3 Nabatieh district Figure 3: Marital status (aged 15+) by sex I. DEMOGRAPHICS declared that they were “married” in 2018– The residents in Nabatieh: who and how many are they? were “never married”. The he survey results sho that in – the old reresented er cent o the total caa o abatieh hosted er cent o hereas those aged beteen and residents o Lebanon ith around years old reresented er cent he residents er cent o the residents reaining er cent ere the older ere eales and er cent ales residents years old (Figure 1) er cent o the residents in abatieh n – the age deendency ratio or ere ound in the age grou – years abatieh as er cent coared to (Figure 3) he younger residents o less than years er cent at the national level

Figure 1: Residents in Nabatieh 2018-2019 ale Feale Age Group

he Survey results shoed that ales Figure 2: Head of household by sex redoinated as heads o household t as estiated that er cent o households ere headed by a an coared to en oen er cent nationally hile er cent o households ere headed by a oan relatively to er cent in Lebanon 82.8% 17.2% (Figure 2)

ge deendency ratio is the nuber o deendents aged years and those aged coared to the total oulation aged years hich is the oring age oulation t describes the degree to hich the econoically nonroductive oulation is deendent on the oringage oulation he higher the ratio the greater the econoic burden

Page 4 Page 5 Nabatieh district How many rooms does a household have?

II. HOUSING Where do residents in Nabatieh live?

(Figure 6) The laret hare rimary reidence in rrtin indeendent he r villa

aatieh were aartment er cent at the caa level wa dle that the wherea 2. er cent were indeendent natinal level 12.2 er cent. (Figure 4) Figure 6: Primary residences by number of rooms (%) he r villa. t i wrth ntin that the

Figure 4: Distribution of primary residences by type of dwelling Nabatieh Lebanon 0. 2. 12.2 2.

Persons per room

.0 8. artment ndeendent he r villa ther Primary residences by area (m2) .1 er cent the rimary reidence in dwellin cmared t 1. er cent at the (Figure 7) aatieh were 10 are meter and mre level the cntry. eidence 80 t le

cmared t . er cent at the natinal than 10 m2 cmried .1 er cent the 2 level. mall reidence le than 80 m ttal cmared t 8. er cent natinally. Figure 7: Persons per room (%) were the leat cmmn – .8 er cent the (Figure 5) Nabatieh Lebanon

Figure 5: Primary residences by area of residence (%) .8 e than 80 m2 1. .1 80 t le than 10 m2 8. .1 10 m2 and mre . aatieh eann ≥2

Page 6 Page 7 Are the primary residences old or new? Cost associated with residence

Figure 8: Primary residences by age of residence (Table 1) (Figure 8)

Table 1: Yearly expenditures on services for main dwellings (in thousand LBP) Connectivity to infrastructure and utilities Nabatieh Lebanon Services Mean Median Mean Median (Figure 9)

Figure 9: Facilities of main source of drinking water at the dwelling (%) Total yearly Expenses on services 2,789 2,520 3,308 2,940

Home appliances and means of transportation

(Figure 10)

Figure 10: Sources of electricity in primary residences (Figure 11)

Per cent

Page 8 Page 9 Figure 11: Home appliances types and means of transportation (%) Figure 12: Access to services (%)

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Access to basic services

(Figure 12)

Page 10 Page 11 Nabatieh district Schooling in Nabatieh

III. EDUCATION Figure 13: Distribution of students by type Gross Enrolment Ratio versus Net Enrolment Rate of educational institution (Table 2) (Figure 13)

Table 2: Enrolment by level of education (in %) Nabatieh Lebanon Gross Net Gross Net Level of education Enrolment Enrolment Enrolment Enrolment Ratio Ratio Ratio Ratio Elementary level (Figure 14) Intermediate level Figure 14: Residents (aged 3+) by level of education attained and sex (%) Secondary level

Note: These results exclude domestic workers The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)

The Net Enrolment Rate (NER) *Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (Figure 15a)

Page 12 Page 13 Nabatieh district

Figure 15a: Illiteracy rate by age group and sex (aged 10 years +) IV. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND How much do households earn in total?

Per cent (Figure 16) (Figure 15b)

Figure 16: Household income range from all sources Figure 15b: Total illiteracy rate by sex (aged 10 years +) in the month preceding the Survey in thousand LBP (%)

Per cent

... and how do they perceive their wealth status?

themselves as “poor ” was “average or average to poor”, “wealthy or financially welloff” was (Figure 17)

Page 14 Page 15 Figure 17: Self classification of wealth of households Figure 19: Residents (aged 15 years +) by employment status and health insurance coverage (%) Nabatieh Lebanon

mploye nemploye tsie laor force otal

aatieh eanon

ealthy or financially welloff verage or average to poor oor or very poor he main sorce of health coverage in ervants ooperation was greater in aatieh was the ational ocial ecrity aatieh per cent than in the whole n , which covere almost half of of eanon per cent whereas private Health Coverage5 the insre poplation per cent, insrance was significantly less common followe y the eanese rmy an the per cent in aatieh compare to per nly per cent of the total resients in national level, the reslts show a relatively nternal ecrity orces per cent cent in eanon (Figure 20) aatieh were covere y at least one type higher health coverage for oth women nterestingly, the coverage of the lic of health insrance a higher health per cent an men per cent coverage was fon for women per (Figure 18) cent than for men per cent t the Figure 20: Distribution of residents benefiting from health insurance

by source of insurance Figure 18: Health coverage by sex (%) Nabatieh Lebanon

omen en otal aatieh eanon

n aatieh, less than half of the resients he proportions of employe, nemploye age years an aove ha a health an resients otsie the laor force who ational ocial ecrity n coverage per cent, whereas were covere in aatieh per cent, lic ervants ooperation nationally, the proportion of the insre per cent an per cent respectively rmy an the nternal ecrity orces poplation in the same age grop was were all less than those oserve at the rivate insrance higher per cent national level t is worth noting that ther nemploye resients were the least covere in the istrict (Figure 19)

n this section, all the figres ecle the omestic worers ncling acltative n

Page 16 Page 17 Nabatieh district Figure 21: Labour force participation rate (%) V. LABOUR FORCE and EMPLOYMENT Labour market structure omen Men ota

mong the estimate , inivials laor force, either employe , or aatie eanon age years ol an aove living in nemploye , he remaining , primary resiential wellings in aatieh in inivials were otsie the laor force e sare o te at aor orce (e te compare to per cent in aatie an –, aot , people were in the nempoe or in wor eceee tat o per cent compare to per cent at te ot an mare per cent te nationa ee (Figure 22) Working age population(15 years+) Working age population a(15 years +) otal , Figure 22: Labour force participation rate among youth and adults (%) omen , en , Persons outside the Labour force labour force Labour otalForce , Persons outside the a otallabour , force omen , a omen , en ot ( ears ts ( ears en , Persons in Persons in , aatie eanon employment unemployment otal , otal , e empomenttopopation ratio in empoe in aatie wit a ener ap o Persons in employmentomen ,Persons in unemploymentomen , aatie ( per cent was ower tan percentaepoint ierence n aen , aen , tat o te contr ( per cent ere eanon te empomenttopopation were some notae ener isparities in te ratio reace per cent or women an empomenttopopation ratio at ot te per cent or men marin a ener ap Note: Estimation below 2,500 has a standard error above 20 per cent. Due to rounding, numbers istrict an contr ees per cent o o percentaepoint ierence presented may not add up precisely to the totals. women an per cent o men were (Figure 23) Note: Estimation below 2,500 has a standard error above 20 per cent. Due to rounding, numbers presented may not add up precisely to the totals.

Figure 23: Employment-to-population ratio (%) Who is Employed, Searching for a job or Inactive - From a Gender Point of View

otal laor force participation rate in eanon were higher compare to omen Men ota omen Men ota aatieh was per cent, which was women’s ( per cent in aatieh an aatie eanon lower than the national rate of per per cent in eanon at oth the istrict cent ener isparity was high in aatieh, an national levels, with a notale gener an more accentate than the national gap reaching percentage points an level Men’s participation rates percentage points respectively e comparison o te rests roa ae tat tese ratios were cose to tose mare percent in aatieh an per cent in (Figure 21) rops sows tat te ot empoment at te nationa ee e ap etween te topopation ratio in aatie ( per two ae rops at te caa ee reace a cent was consiera ower tan tat o ierence o percentae points

te ats ( per cent t is wort notin (Figure 24) aor orce articipation ate Persons in Employment+Persons in Unemployment n this rief, the gener gap is calclateWorking y stracting−age Population the (female15+ years rate old )from the∗ 100 male rate

Page 18 Page 19 Figure 24: Employment-to-population ratio by broad age groups (%) e inactiit rate wic represents te per cent o women an per cent o proportion o te persons consiere men were inactie at te caa ee inactie neither working nor looking for any compare to per cent o women an job in te tota popation ae ears per cent o men at te nationa ee an aoe in aatie ( per cent (Figure 27) ot ( ears ts ( ears eceee tat o eanon ( per cent aatie eanon

Figure 27: Inactivity rate of residents aged 15 years + (%) e nempoment rate in aatie ( women an per cent or men n oter per cent was eow te nationa ee ( wors te ener ap in te nempoment per cent ierences at te contr ee rate was more siniicant in aatie ( were osere etween men ( per cent percentaepoint ierence tan in omen Men ota an women ( per cent et te ap was eanon as a woe ( percentaepoint aatie eanon ier in aatie were te ierence (Figure 25) nempoment rate was per cent or Where do they work?

Figure 25: Unemployment rate by sex (%) e erices sector was te arest men an per cent o worin women empoment sector or women an men were empoe in instr in aatie wit respectie per cent an per compare to per cent o worin men cent in aatie compare to per cent an per cent o worin women in te an per cent in eanon n tis sector woe o eanon mpoment in omen Men ota omen Men ota women srpasse men percentae arictre was te owest amon a te aatie eanon points at te caa ee t was particar economic sectors at te nationa an istrict noticeae tat per cent o worin ees (Figure 28) nempoment was ess preaent amon woe e ap etween te ot an te ats tan amon ot at ot te istrict ats nempoment rate reace Figure 28: Economic activity sector by sex (%) an contr ees wit a rate reacin percentae points in aatie an per cent an per cent respectie in percentae points in eanon as a woe aatie compare to per cent an (Figure 26) per cent respectie in eanon as a

Figure 26: Unemployment rate among youth and adults (%) ot ( ears ts ( ears aatie eanon omen Men omen Men aatie eanon

rictre nstr erices

nempoment rate Persons in Unemployment (aged 15 years and above) Labour Force (aged 15 years and above) ∗ 100

Page 20 Page 21 ... and how many hours per week omens share in employment as lo yet than that attaine at the national leel more prealent for pai employment than per ent ens share in pai employment Men in empoment were reporte to e ors or ot sees e to temporar employeronaont orer he as hiher in abatieh ompare to the worin oner pai ors tan women e asences sc as acation anna eae majority of employers or onaont national leel per ent an per ent aerae nmer o acta wee pai ors etc n eanon as a woe te acta orers in abatieh ere men per respetiely (Figure 30) was or men an or women nmer o ors o wor was per cent or ent a proportion that as slihtly hiher rtermore te acta nmer o ors o men an per cent or women wor was sit eow te sa nmer o (Figure 29) Figure 30: Employed (15 years and above) by employment status and sex (%)

Figure 29: Average usual and actual weekly hours of work by sex omen

abatieh en per week omen omen Men Number of of Number hours sa ors cta ors Note: Excludes domestic workers ebanon en

mployeronaont orer ai employment What type of jobs do they hold and where?

ccorin to te te concept o inorma os at teir main occpation a “informal employment” refers to jobs that rest tat was on to e ier tan te How many jobs are ''vulnerable''? o not proie empoees wit ea or nationa ee ( per cent an per socia protection ts eposin tem to cent o te empoe popation were n abatieh lnerable employment hiher for men in abatieh ompare to the reater economic riss tan oter empoe worin in te inorma sector t is per ent as reporte to be sinifiantly hole of ebanon oreoer it as more peope s or concept o te inorma instrctie to note tat te atter proportion hiher than that obsere at the ontry prealent amon men per ent than sector it is a sset o nincorporate was aoe te nationa ee ( per cent leel per ent t is orth notin that amon omen per ent (Figure 31) enterprises not constitte as separate ea e proportion o empoe iniias lnerable employment as remarably entities inepenent o teir owners oin an inorma o in a orma sector was near te same in aatie an Figure 31: Vulnerable employment (%) e rests sow tat per cent o te eanon ( per cent an per cent empoe popation in aatie e respectie (Table 3) Table 3: Formality versus Informality (in %)

Nabatieh Lebanon omen en otal abatieh ebanon Type of employment Informal Formal Informal Formal Total Total Sector Sector Sector Sector Informal

Formal orin to the nternational abor raniation efinition ''Vulnerable Employment'' Total is the sm of onaont orers an ontribtin family orers in total employment his ateory of orers has a loer lielihoo of hain formal or arranements an is therefore more liely to la elements assoiate ith aeate soial serity an a oie at or

Page 22 Page 23 Youth in Employment versus Youth Not in Education, Employment or The Team Training (NEET)

his report ol not hae been possible ithot the joint effort an ooperation of a team oth rate Youth not in education, yoth rate an per ent for the of eperts orin in the entral ministration of tatistis an the nite ations employment or training rate per ent yoth employmenttopoplation ratio eelopment roramme he report as prepare ner the oerall iretion an in abatieh as loer than the yoth oreoer omens rate per ent iane of r aral tlian ianian iretor eneral of the entral ministration employmenttopoplation ratio per as hiher than that of men per ent of tatistis an eline oyro esient epresentatie ent t the ontry leel almost similar in abatieh (Figure 32)

reslts ere fon per ent for the he ontribtions of the folloin team are rateflly note Figure 32: Youth in employment and NEET rate (%) Supervision: r ranois arah nternational pert on poplation eelopment an soial poliy Report drafting: aifa sseini onomist omen en otal mploymenttooplation atio oth rate Data Preparation and Tabulations: ayssaa aher an li amieh ath tatistiians

Report review:

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Report Design: ayal ttieh

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