Labour Force Survey data content from January 2008 onwards
The data content was reviewed on 5 November 2012.
1. Labour force status and other activity
- Active population
- Employed and employment rate
- Unemployed and unemployment rate
- Activity of persons not in labour force
- Main activity (own view)
2. Data on workplace and occupation in both main and secondary job
- Number of jobs
- Size of workplace
- Industry
- Employer sector (private, local government, central government)
- Location and country of workplace
- Occupation
- Status in employment (employee, self-employed, unpaid family worker)
- Socio-economic group (manual worker, upper-level and lower-level employee)
- Paid labour force of the self-employed
- Employees in supervisory functions
- Employees' monthly salary
3. Data on employment relationship
- Permanent / temporary employment relationship and reason for temporary employment relationship
- Duration of employment relationship
- Part-time / full-time work and reason for part-time work
- Temporary employment agency work
4. Data on working hours and arrangements related to them
- Shift work
- Period-based work
- Usual weekly working hours
- Hours worked (work input) in main and secondary job
- Days worked
- Overtime (paid / unpaid)
- On-call hours at the place of work
- Evening, night and weekend work
- Working at home
- Absence during the Survey week: main reason and duration of absence
- Absence due to sickness and family leaves
5. Unemployment, underemployment, job seeking
- Lay-off for a fixed period of time or until further notice
- Duration of unemployment
- Methods of job seeking
- Obstacles to job seeking
- Type of job sought (full-time or part-time job, as an employee or a self-employed person)
- Valid registration with the employment and economic development centre, and unemployment benefit
- Underemployment: whether an employed person would like to increase his/her present working hours
- Number of weekly working hours desired by the employed
- Disguised unemployment
6. Education completed and studies in the past four weeks
- General basic education
- Qualification or degree attained (Register of Completed Education and Degrees)
- Level and field of qualification or degree
- Participation in education leading to a qualification or degree
- Participation in course training
- Participation in course training related to work or occupation
- Participation in course training during paid working hours
- Total number of lessons in four weeks
7. Previous activity
- Activity one year ago and data on job held one year ago
- Previous paid employment of persons currently unemployed during the past eight years and data on previous workplace
8. Data on the household
- Size of household
- Type of household
- Activity of household members aged 15 to 74
- Employment relationships and working hours of employed household members aged 15 to 74
The most important background variables for key employment and unemployment indicators
- Sex
- Age
- Education
- Region
- Industry
- Employer sector (private, local government, central government)
- Occupation
- Status in employment
- Socio-economic group
Last updated 5.11.2012
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Labour force survey [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-7857. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 23.5.2013].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/tyti/tyti_2008-02-19_tlu_001_en.html.
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