 Criteria Used in the Lfs to Identify The Population’S Economic Activity Status Vs. The Respondents’ Subjective Views: Implications for Unemployment ResearchKołodziejczak Włodzimierz ()
Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis, 2018, vol. 22, issue 3, 99-113 Abstract: In the Labour Force Survey (LFS) the interviewees are considered as employed, unemployed or professionally inactive based on “objective” criteria defined in the survey’s methodological assumptions (e.g. the fact that a person is seeking employment, waiting to start work or worked at least one hour in the reference week). In use since 1992, the above approach allows the classification to be unaffected by the respondents’ subjective feelings. Since 2006, LFS respondents have been also allowed to identify their economic activity status by themselves. The objective of this paper is to indicate and attempt to explain the differences between the results based on the identification of economic activity statuses as per the criteria adopted by the Central Statistical Office and the LFS respondents’ own assessment of their economic activity status. This paper assessed the rationale behind each approach and the implications thereof for the procedure and results of unemployment surveys from a static and dynamic perspective. Keywords: Labour Force Survey (LFS); unemployment; economic activity; inflow/outflow analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:eaiada:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:99-113:n:7 Access Statistics for this article Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis is currently edited by Józef Dziechciarz More articles in Econometrics. Advances in Applied Data Analysis from Sciendo |
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