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Precarious employment by sex, age and NACE Rev. 2 activity lfsa_qoe_4ax1r2

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1. Contact

  • 1.1. Contact organisation

  • Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union

  • 1.2. Contact organisation unit

  • Unit F3: Labour market and lifelong learning

  • 1.3. Contact name
  • Restricted from publication
  • 1.4. Contact person function
  • Restricted from publication
  • 1.5. Contact mail address

  • 2920 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG

  • 1.6. Contact email address
  • Restricted from publication
  • 1.7. Contact phone number
  • Restricted from publication
  • 1.8. Contact fax number
  • Restricted from publication

2. Metadata update

  • 2.1. Metadata last certified
  • 2019-04-29
  • 2.2. Metadata last posted
  • 2019-04-29
  • 2.3. Metadata last update
  • 2019-04-29

3. Statistical presentation

  • 3.1. Data description

  • The "Quality of employment" framework developed under the lead of UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) represents a neutral and comprehensive approach to assess quality of employment in its multiple facets. It defines 68 indicators on seven dimensions that address employment quality from the perspective of the employed person. Its design also facilitates international comparison. For statistical institutes, researchers and policy users looking to build and analyse datasets using these indicators, the framework explained in a handbook published by UNECE. Using the UNECE framework, Eurostat has compiled data on employment quality for the EU countries that is provided in the Eurostat database.

    LFS in one of the sources which provides data for filling some of the indicators. The section 'Quality of employment' reports annual results from the EU-LFS concerning some of those indicators.

    In particular:

    • Long working hours in main job: percentage of employed persons usually working 49 hours or more per week
    • Weekly working hours: Average number of usual weekly working hours of employed persons 
    • Work on weekends: Percentage of employed persons usually working at Saturday on/or Sunday
    • Job tenure Percentage of employed persons by duration of employment with current employer by number of years.
    • Temporary employment agency workers: Percentage of employed persons working for a temporary work agency
    • Precarious employment: Percentage of employees with a short-term contract of up to 3 months

    More information on Eurostat indicators about Quality of employment is available on the dedicated webpage.

    General information on the EU-LFS can be found in the ESMS page for 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)', see link in related metadata. Detailed information on the main features, the legal basis, the methodology and the data as well as on the historical development of the EU-LFS is available on the EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage.

  • 3.2. Classification system

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 3.3. Coverage - sector

  • As a general rule the EU-LFS covers all economic sectors.

  • 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 3.5. Statistical unit

  • Persons.

  • 3.6. Statistical population

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 3.7. Reference area

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 3.8. Coverage - Time

  • Data are available from 2000 onwards.

  • 3.9. Base period

  • Not applicable.

4. Unit of measure

Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

5. Reference Period

Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

6. Institutional Mandate

  • 6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

  • Not applicable.

7. Confidentiality

  • 7.1. Confidentiality - policy

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

8. Release policy

  • 8.1. Release calendar

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 8.2. Release calendar access

  • Not applicable.

  • 8.3. Release policy - user access

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

9. Frequency of dissemination

Annual

10. Accessibility and clarity

  • 10.1. Dissemination format - News release

  • Not applicable.

  • 10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

  • For more information on data and publications, please consult: EU-LFS - Data and publications.

  • 10.3. Dissemination format - online database

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

  • EU-LFS anonymised microdata are available for research purposes. Please refer to access to microdata.

  • 10.5. Dissemination format - other

  • See: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

  • 10.6. Documentation on methodology

  • For a detailed description of methods and concepts used, as well as for other documents related to the EU-LFS, please consult the  EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage.

    The EU-LFS disseminates also publications on the methodology of the survey. For more information please consult: Quality reports and methodological publications.

  • 10.7. Quality management - documentation

  • See section 11.1.

11. Quality management

  • 11.1. Quality assurance

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 11.2. Quality management - assessment

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

12. Relevance

  • 12.1. Relevance - User Needs

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 12.3. Completeness

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

13. Accuracy

  • 13.1. Accuracy - overall

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 13.2. Sampling error

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 13.3. Non-sampling error

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

14. Timeliness and punctuality

  • 14.1. Timeliness

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'LFS series - detailed annual survey results' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 14.2. Punctuality

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

15. Coherence and comparability

  • 15.1. Comparability - geographical

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 15.2. Comparability - over time

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 15.3. Coherence - cross domain

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 15.4. Coherence - internal

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

16. Cost and Burden

Not available.

17. Data revision

  • 17.1. Data revision - policy

  • Revisions of previously released data are not expected, unless major errors are identified in the data delivered or in their processing. Exceptional revisions may happen e.g. after new estimates of population from a population census.

  • 17.2. Data revision - practice

  • Revisions of previously released data are not expected, unless major errors are identified in the data delivered or in their processing. Exceptional revisions may happen e.g. after new estimates of population from a population census.

18. Statistical processing

  • 18.1. Source data

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 18.2. Frequency of data collection

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 18.3. Data collection

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 18.4. Data validation

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 18.5. Data compilation

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on 'LFS series - detailed annual survey results' (see link below in section 'related metadata').

  • 18.6. Adjustment

  • No adjustments are made to the EU-LFS data. Please note that Eurostat also publishes LFS adjusted series under the collection 'LFS main indicators'.

19. Comment

No notes.