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| The European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) is the main source of information about the situation and trends on the labour market in the European Union. The EU-LFS is organised in 12 modules covering demographic background, labour status, employment characteristics of the main job, atypical work, working time, employment characteristics of the second job, previous work experience of persons not in employment, search for employment, main labour status, education and training, situation one year before the survey and income.
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As early as 1960, Eurostat organized the first labour force survey in order to collect comparable data on employment and unemployment in the six original member states (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands).
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A common Council regulation, common variable definition, common explanatory notes and common regulation regarding the definition of unemployment and the twelve principles of questionnaire construction go a long way to ensure comparability of the statistics between the Participating Countries.
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The EU-LFS results cover the total population usually residing in the participating countries, except for persons living in collective or institutional households (for issues regarding the exclusion of the population living in these households and homeless persons, please refer to the chapter on EU-SILC).
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The EU-LFS measures the variables during a reference week in each the reference quarter. The reference week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. By convention, the first week of the year is the week including the first Thursday, and the 1st reference quarter consists of 13 consecutive weeks starting from that week. Therefore reference quarter corresponds to the calendar quarter. Exceptions are Ireland and the United Kingdom, which used until 2006 the seasonal quarter (Dec-Feb, Mar-May, Jun-Aug, Sep-Nov). Built in this way, the quarterly sample is spread uniformly over all weeks of the quarter. Annual data encompass the four reference quarters in the year.
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The concepts and definitions used in the survey are based on those contained in the Recommendation of the 13th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, convened in 1982 by the International Labour Organisation (hereafter referred as the ‘ILO guidelines’).
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