Dar es Salaam region dominates employment in Tanzania mainland

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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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