The nature of unemployment has been long disputed among economists. Is it a matching problem between job–seekers and the profiles sought by employers (structural unemployment) or rather a macroeconomic shortage of labour demand compared with aggregate supply (cyclical unemployment)? Different...

This report provides results from the national Time Use Surveys (TUS). In TUS a representative sample of individuals has completed a diary one weekday and one weekend day distributed over the whole year. The activities have been coded. Basic tables have been produced on activities by lifecycle,...

LUCAS ist ein Pilotprojekt, das von EUROSTAT in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Generaldirektion Landwirtschaft und der Gemeinsamen Forschungsstelle gestartet wird, um die politischen Entscheidungen zu unterstützen. LUCAS ist eine statistische Erhebung von Flächenstichproben, die darauf abzielt,...

This working paper presents the results of a feasibility study about comparable statistics in the area of care of dependant adults in the European Union. The purpose was to investigate the needs for statistics in this area, to do an inventory and to analyse the existing data sources in Member...

In order to produce Eurostat demographic projections, scenarios on international migration for European countries have to be defined. To arrive at soundly founded method to formulate meaningful migrations assymptions, the project « Analysis and forccasting International Migration by Major...

This working paper is a follow-up to the 1999 report "Proposal for a Satellite Account of Household Production" which had been made available as Eurostat working paper 9/1999/A4/11. It is the report of a Eurostat task force and presents work in progress. It presents neither Eurostat's position...