The manpower survey poses questions regarding the volume of workforce and its various characteristics, rates of employment and unemployment and economic partnership and dependency. It aims to achieve a number of goals, the most important of which are as follows:

1-Providing detailed data about national and foreign workers according to demographics and social and economic characteristics;

2-Measuring the rates of employment and unemployment and economic partnership and dependency according to numerous variables;

3-Providing data about training programs for job-seekers;

4-Recognizing the previous experience of job-seekers, who had previously worked;

5-Providing data about employees and the unemployed according to their scientific qualifications and specialties;

6-Recognizing the professional makeup and economic activity of employees according to a number of variables;

7-Recognizing the average monthly salary for employees;

8-Providing data about the average weekly work hours according to employees’ profession and economic activity;

9-Providing detailed data about job-seekers; and

10-Providing data about organized and disorganized labor