At a press conference held on Tuesday, the High Commissioner for Planning, Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, said that the Employment Satellite Account (ESA) was the first experiment in Africa and the fourth in the world, after experiments in Australia, Iran, and Denmark.
The account, produced by the Haut-commissariat au Plan (HCP) in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), provides the framework for a database unprecedented in Morocco and Africa, designed to provide a better understanding of the labor market production structures.
In this respect, Mr. Lahlimi stressed that this account provides a harmonized and systematic database on the demand for labor mobilized by production units and a coherent framework for integrating and presenting labor market variables about the data and aggregates provided by the central framework of national accounts.
Mr. Lahlimi added that this account makes it possible to bring data from the national census, structural surveys of businesses, surveys of the informal sector, and administrative registers into a coherent and unified framework of concepts, definitions, and nomenclatures.
Based on statistical sources on employment, the CSE makes it possible to refine the measurement of productivity and to shed new light on the demand for labor and wage remuneration about value-added and productive structures.
It should also be noted that the CSE data provide disaggregated details enabling analysis of the structure of the labor input mobilized by a branch of activity, institutional sector, status in the profession, gender, and socio-professional category.
Among the results revealed by the CSE, Mr. Lahlimi highlighted the major role played by the agricultural sector in determining growth and employment, contributing 12% of total value added while employing 39.7% of total employment. However, he noted that employment in this sector remains low-paid, low-skilled, predominantly informal, and marked by a continuous reduction in the number of people employed.