العربية Last updated on: 23 March 2021 Bahrain Labour Market Indicators (BLMI) is a system of regularly updated statistical tables with charts and analysis designed to monitor key elements of the labour market of Bahrain for guiding policy decisions of the Board of Directors of LMRA. The system has been developed in response to LMRA Law no. 19/2006 on Regulating the Labour Market which stipulates in its Article 4 (para. A.II) that "the Authority will be the principal source that releases the accurate intelligence and information and statistics related to the labour market in the Kingdom." The main components of the system are available to the public in this Website in the form of a summary dashboard with key messages and charts, detail sets of data with selected graphics, with links to international statistics, and a list of supporting documents, glossary of main concepts and definitions, and frequently asked questions (FAQs). This website is best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer. The summary dashboard with the key messages and charts are also made available to the public in hardcopy format as a bilingual Newsletter in Arabic and English. LMI is under continuous development. The feedback of users will greatly help this process. Any comments on inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and other errors in the tables and in the links will also be greatly appreciated. The LMI database is composed of five parts: Core data, Survey data, Other national, International data and On request data. A few comments on the Core and Survey data, the data quality, and the processing system are made below: The core data are presented in PDF and Excel format with a standard structure: the statistical table at the top of the page followed by selected graphics at the bottom of the page. The core data comprise two types of tables: Time series and Cross-classifications. The time series tables are presented by year from 1996 onward where available, and by quarter for the current year. Where data for particular years or quarters were not available, the corresponding line or lines are left blank so that the table layouts remain unchanged. The cross-classification tables show data for a given point of time, generally, the date of the latest set of available data. The core data comprise a list of numbered tables (Tables 1 to 82) with currently missing tables in between, and lettered tables (Tables A and B). The numbered tables are obtained from non-LMRA sources and the lettered tables are compiled by LMRA based on a combination of sources. The survey data are presented in Microsoft Excel format and cover the results of specially conducted surveys by LMRA. The accuracy of the data presented here depends in most cases on the quality of data received from the original source. To the extent feasible attempts have made to present the data under standardised labels with description given in the Glossary. Where possible, data have been harmonised in line with ILO International standard definitions and classifications as well as IMF General Data Dissemination Standards (GDDS). In case of Tables A and B on total employment and wages where multiple sources were used, attempts have been made to adjust the original data for inconsistencies using labour accounting principles. The calculation procedure can be traced in the Excel file made available in document section of the website. Data are collected on monthly basis from different sources according to official service level agreements with various agencies in the Kingdom including LMRA itself, GOSI, PFC, CSB, MoIC. The source data are loaded into LMRA system into a staging area that maintains a copy in the database. Then the data are loaded into a data warehouse organised in terms of particular topics such as Employment, Unemployment, and Economic units. The data are further processed into suitable variables called Key Performance Indicators. Abdulla Isa Kamal - Web Developer; Adel Akbar - Surveyor Staff (until 2009); Asma Ali Abbas - Researcher; Eman Al Sammak - Researcher; Fadheela Marhoon - Market Intelligence Officer; Farhad Mehran - Policy Advisor; Hanan A.Jabbar Hassan - Statistician (until 2009); Mohammed Ebrahim Dito - Acting Vice President, Policy Directorate; Mohammed Habib- Senior Economist (until 2008); Mona Hatem- Manager (until 2008), Research and Data Collection; Nedhal Al Banna - Policy Manager; Rania Akram Hubeishi - Market Intelligence Supervisor; Santhosh Kumar Akula - Market Intelligence Advisor; Zeyad Adel Darwish - Multimedia Officer.