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Long working hours in the main job by professional status and occupation lfsa_qoe_3a2

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1. Contact

  • 1.1. Contact organisation

  • Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union

  • 1.2. Contact organisation unit

  • [4D1_F3] Eurostat - Labour market and skills

  • 1.3. Contact name
  • Confidential because of GDPR
  • 1.4. Contact person function
  • Confidential because of GDPR
  • 1.5. Contact mail address

  • 2920 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG

  • 1.6. Contact email address
  • Confidential because of GDPR
  • 1.7. Contact phone number
  • Confidential because of GDPR
  • 1.8. Contact fax number
  • Confidential because of GDPR

2. Metadata update

  • 2.1. Metadata last certified
  • 2025-11-17
  • 2.2. Metadata last posted
  • 2025-11-17
  • 2.3. Metadata last update
  • 2025-11-17

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 is explained in a Handbook on measuring quality of employment 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 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 Quality of employment webpage.

    General information on the EU-LFS can be found in the ESMS page for 'Employment and unemployment (LFS). 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).

  • 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).

  • 3.5. Statistical unit

  • Persons.

  • 3.6. Statistical population

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on Employment and unemployment (LFS).

  • 3.7. Reference area

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on Employment and unemployment (LFS).

  • 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).

5. Reference Period

Please refer to the ESMS page on Employment and unemployment (LFS).

6. Institutional Mandate

  • 6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

  • Please refer to the ESMS page on Employment and unemployment (LFS).

  • 6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

  • Not applicable.

7. Confidentiality

8. Release policy

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).

  • 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 the Eurostat website.

  • 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

12. Relevance

13. Accuracy

14. Timeliness and punctuality

15. Coherence and comparability

16. Cost and Burden

Not available.

17. Data revision

  • 17.1. Data revision - policy

  • The Eurostat revision policy applies to this domain.

  • 17.2. Data revision - practice

  • All reported errors (once validated) result in corrections of the disseminated data. Reported errors are corrected in the disseminated data as soon as the correct data have been validated.

    Data are only published once they are deemed to be sufficiently complete for all data providers contributing to the aggregate.

    New data are only used to update disseminated data in the case of reported errors, or in exceptional situations, such as after new population estimates have been defined based on a population census.

18. Statistical processing

19. Comment

No notes.