ICT Human Resource Indicators, WSIS Thematic Meeting on Measuring the Information Society, 7-9 Feb 2005, M. Wongsaroje ICT Human Resources Indicators M.

ICT Human Resource Indicators, WSIS Thematic Meeting on Measuring the Information Society, 7-9 Feb 2005, M. Wongsaroje

ICT Human Resources Indicators

M. Wongsaroje

National Statistical Office, Thailand

Email: [email protected]

Session 6 : Future and supplementary Indicators


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Outlines

Requirements from Policy makers Thailand ICT Indicators 2003 Thailand ICT Indicators 2004 New challenge for 2005


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Requirements from Policy makers

Ministry of ICT Master plan ICT human resource development

Target: to increase Thailand ICT competitiveness Strategy: ICT human resources capacity building Indicators: ICT indicators conform to international standard and

Telecommunication–related HR (number and skills) (2005)

National ICT Master plan Laid out administrative, monitoring, and assessment mechanisms,

setting targets and achievement indicators for the overall plan, as well as for each strategy.

IT2010 Policy Framework ICT Master Plan 2002-2006


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Thailand ICT Indicators 2003

Published in 2003 by NECTEC Result from a project to develop national ICT indicators aiming to

collect statistics and data necessary for analysis of the nation’s ICT situation.

ICT HR Indicators: Enrollment rates 1999-2002

5 education level: Pre-primary, Primary, Lower-secondary, General upper secondary, and Vocational upper secondary

Source: Office of the National Education Commission, Ministry of education Number of IT personal by job classification 2001 Estimated demand for IT manpower 2001-2006 Estimated demand for IT manpower in 2006 by job classification

Source: the study done by NECTEC and Thammasat University 2001


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No. of IT Personal by Job classification 2001


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Estimated demand for IT manpower 2001-2006


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Estimated demand for ICT manpower in 2006 by job classification


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Thailand ICT Indicators 2004

Published in 2004 by NSO Human resource indicators:

Enrollment in IT training program of Ministry of Labor 2002-2003 Enrollment rate 1999-2002 Schools having internet access by types

ICT indicators from household surveys Labor Force Survey 2001-2003 ICT usage 2002-2003

ICT indicators from establishment surveys Business and trade surveys 2002-2004 ICT surveys 2004


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ICT workforce indicators from HH surveys

Data source : Labor force surveys 2001-2003 Following OECD methods (Measuring the information economy

2002: occupations and skills in the information economy)

Some indicators: ICT-related workers (high skilled, low skilled) ICT-related workers by education level ICT-related workers by work status ICT-related workers by hour worked ICT-related workers by industry sector ICT-related workers by average wages ICT-related workers by establishment size


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Rate of ICT-related workers by 1000 workers 2001-2003


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Percentage of ICT-related workers by work status


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ICT-related workers by industrial sector 2001-2003


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ICT HR indicator from establishment surveys

Data source: The 2004 Information and Communication Technology Survey (establishment) coverage : ISIC 50, 51, 52, 55, 70, 72, 71, 73, 74, 92, 93, 15-37,

45, 6021-6023, 6304 one question about ICT human resource

Number of software specialist Number of software specialist engaged in establishment

by type, sex,economic activity and size of establishment


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Number of software specialists in establishments 2004

Economic activity No.establishmentswith software

specialist

Total Develop andmaintainprogram

System designand analyst

Develop andmaintain web

sites

Total 13,261 31,092 18,042 8,918 4,131

Business Tradeand Services

10,221 22,952 13,562 6,304 3,087

Manufacturing 2,302 6,638 3,632 2,149 856

Construction 427 957 516 367 74

Other landtransport and

activities of travelagencies

310 545 333 98 115


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Difficulties

Unclear definitions Need for ICT Industry sector classification Need for ICT - related occupation classification Unclear data collection methods Difficult questions to understand for interviewers etc...


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New Challenges in 2005

Need for telecommunication workforce indicator Challenging activities:

Definitions, classifications Data collection methods Data providers: households, establishments,

registration records

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