Transforming Zambia’s Labour Force Survey using artificial intelligence
This working paper evaluates the use of GPT-4 Turbo to classify open-ended responses from Zambia’s 2023 Labour Force Survey into standardised occupational and industry codes. The results show that GPT-4 Turbo significantly outperforms human enumerators in accuracy, offering potential efficiency gains of up to 130 working days annually for the Zambia Statistics Agency.
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Rossow-et-al-Working-Paper-June-2025.pdf
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