According to the broadest measure available for the 1990s, the October Household Survey (OHS), employment actually grew somewhat more rapidly than GDP in the period 1995-99. On the other hand, the Survey of Employment and Earnings (SEE), capturing only non-agricultural formal employment in larger enterprises, showed stagnation and even decline in employment from 1995-99. The truth for that period probably lies between the two, as the OHS had increasing coverage of the informal sector, inflating employment growth, while the SEE overweighted shrinking sectors relative to growing ones.