No recent reliable and complete profile of the district's labour force is available. The information as available is presented below, followed by observations on the probable size and composition of Sibi's labour force.

According to the labour survey conducted in 1993-94 by the Directorate of Labour of the Government of Balochistan, 6,367 workers were reported to be employed in industrial and commercial establishments in the Sibi district.

The 1993-94 survey obviously underreported the number of industrial and commercial establishments, as well as that of the workers. The survey also did not cover the informal sector - vendors, rehris (shops on carts), stalls, cottage industry units, animal pulled passenger and goods carriers (tongas, donkey carts, rehras etc) etc. The informal sector is growing fast, and the number of wage workers per enterprise is also on the rise, particularly in the case of child labour. These factors, a survey of the Sibi town's commercial area, and reports of informed persons suggest that the size of the labour force in the private sector in 1995 would be more than twice as large as enumerated in 1993 - 94. Moreover, there is women's labour which remains invisible, because it is most of the time unpaid. But women are very much involved in different activities from morning till evening.

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