Dar es Salaam region dominates employment in Tanzania mainland
By Mnaku Mbani
Dar es Salaam region
has emerged the dominant region with a leading number of employments in Tanzania,
according to the formal sector employment and earnings survey, 2015. Distribution by
region shows that Dar es Salaam continued to dominate with the largest share of
30.6 percent, followed by Morogoro with 11.5 percent. The shares of Dar es
Salaam and Morogoro regions had decreased from 33.6 and 12.1 percent attained
in 2014 respectively.
During 2015 the EES
found out that 2,334,969 persons were employed in formal sector establishments
in Tanzania Mainland as compared to 2,141,351 observed in 2014, which is an
increase of 9.0 percent over a period of one year.
Out of those
persons, 766,803 were employed in public sector and 1,568,165 were employed in
private sector which had almost twice as much as the public sector. The share
of males was 63.0 percent and that of females was 37.0 percent. The number of regular employees was 2,060,013
while that of casual workers was 274,956.
Regular employees
constituted 88.2 percent of total employment while casual workers accounted for
only 11.8 percent. Out of the total regular employees, adult employees aged 36
and above years accounted for 68.7 percent which is almost twice as much as the
proportion of total regular youth employees that is those of age 15-35 years
with 31.3 percent. Within casual workers, employment in private sector
accounted for a higher proportion of 95.8 percent compared to the public sector
with only 4.2 percent.
Education industry
led by having the largest share of total employment which increased from 17.1
percent in 2014 to 19.6 percent in 2015. Manufacturing industry ranked second
with a share of 18.1 percent of total employment in 2015, which decreased from
19.8 percent recorded in 2014. Real estate activities industry had the smallest
share of only 0.2 percent of total employment.
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