This report describes the problems with measuring working time coherently across countries in the European Labour Force Survey, with a special focus on actual working time in the reference week of the survey. The first part of the report gives a brief overview of the results for all EU member...

This report evaluates the 2017 EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) adhoc module on self-employment. The main objective of this report is to describe the implementation of the survey and to assess the quality of the dataset. The report presents some main results and recommendations on how to improve...

The present report describes the main characteristics of the Labour Force Surveys in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as two Candidate Countries and three EFTA countries in 2015. All these countries provide Eurostat with LFS micro-data for publication. The aim of this report...

The purpose of this quality report is to provide the users of the European Union Labour Market Statistics with a tool for assessing the quality of these statistics which are based on the European Union Labour Force Survey. It provides a brief description of the survey and a summary of the main...

This publication presents the methodological framework of the Labour Force Surveys in the EU, Candidate and EFTA Countries in 2004. Information is provided on the history and background of the surveys, the sample design and rotation pattern, the weighting procedure and methods of data collection.

This publication is the result of data collected by Eurostat as part of the "Labour Market Policy" database project undertaken in collaboration with DG-Employ-ment, all EU Member States and Norway. It is based upon a collection of information from administrative sources, relating to public...