Statistics Korea announced on Monday that it will carry out a two-week survey on eleven-thousand-500 foreign workers in the nation on their employment status from Tuesday. 

Statistics that will be collected through the survey, including the number of foreigners who are employed and unemployed, their economic participation rate as well as their employment and jobless rates will be used as basic data for devising policies on the supply and demand of the foreign workforce. Foreigners who have stayed in the nation for more than three months and are 15 or older will be subject to the survey, with results due to come out in October.
 
The statistics agency also plans to carry out a separate survey on foreign workers residing in the cities of Paju and Asan, which have a large population of foreign laborers. 

That survey will focus on determining administrative services needed for foreigners and difficulties that they suffer when using public facilities. The collected information will be used by the related local governments when devising policies related to foreigners. 

The agency and local governments plan to reveal those survey results in November.