Labour Force Survey (Enquête sur les Forces du Travail).
National Institute of Statistics.
National Institute of Statistics.
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, wages, income, duration of employment and unemployment, discouraged and occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, education or qualification level, other jobs, place of work, reasons for part-time work, non-standard working hours, last job, training, etc.
Whole country.
Persons aged 15 years and over. Excluded are institutional populations and persons living abroad.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Continuous survey.
Annually.
One week (moving).
Four weeks (moving).
Two weeks (moving).
Persons aged 15 years and over who during the reference week were in one of the following categories:
(1) Paid employment:
persons at work: persons who during the reference week performed some work (with or without a formal contract) for wage or salary or remuneration in cash or in kind;
persons with a job but not at work: persons who, having already worked in their present job, were absent from work during the reference week (owing to vacation, illness, maternity leave, labour management dispute, bad weather or other reasons) and had a formal attachment to their job.
Apprentices who received pay in cash or in kind are considered to be paid employees.
(2) Self-employment: persons at work: persons who during the reference week performed some work for profit or family gain in cash or in kind (unpaid family helpers are considered to be self-employed persons);
persons with an enterprise but not at work: persons with an enterprise (an industrial or business enterprise, a farm or a service undertaking) who were temporarily not at work during the reference week for any specific reason.
In practice, the notion of work performed during the reference week is interpreted as work for at least one hour. Accordingly, a person undertaking very little part-time work is considered to be employed.
Included are:
1. persons temporarily absent from work, for a period of less than three months, owing to illness or accident, parental leave, educational or training leave, absence without leave, labour management dispute, bad weather or mechanical breakdown, and persons on annual leave or on maternity or paternity leave;
2. persons laid off for a period of less than three months;
3. persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week but were subject to compulsory schooling, or retired and receiving a pension, or registered as job-seekers at an employment office, or receiving unemployment benefit;
4. full-time or part-time students working full or part time;
5. paid apprentices and trainees;
6. unpaid family workers who were working during the reference week;
7. volunteer and career members of the armed forces.
Persons aged 15 years and over who during the reference week were without work, available for work and seeking work.
Persons wanting to work more in their current job or in another job.
Persons seeking other conditions of work such as pay, working hours, travel, etc.
Actual and usual hours.
Net monthly wage or salary and other earnings, paid on an annual basis, such as end-of-year bonuses, holiday bonuses, profit sharing, etc.
Not covered by the survey.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE).
Employed persons and persons who left their job at most eight years previously.
60 groups.
ISIC Rev.3.
National classification based on ISCO.
Employed persons and persons who left their job at most eight years previously.
Approximately 300 groups.
ISCO-88.
National classification.
Employed persons and persons who left their job at most eight years previously.
Paid employees (wage earners, salaried workers and civil servants) and self-employed persons (own-account workers, employers and family helpers).
No information.
No information.
Persons aged 15 years and over.
13 categories: primary (or no qualification); general lower secondary; technical, arts or vocational lower secondary; general upper secondary; technical upper secondary; arts upper secondary; vocational upper secondary; post-secondary non-tertiary; non-university tertiary (short or long courses); university; university second stage; post-graduate.
ISCED-1976.
Household.
Approximately 47,000 households (i.e. 11,960 households per quarter).
Approximately 1.1 per cent.
National register of persons, produced from the population registers of the administrative districts.
No information.
A first interview is followed by a second interview 13 weeks later.
50 per cent.
No information.
Thirteen weeks.
Households are canvassed twice: initial face-to-face interview and a second survey three months later, by post or telephone, based on a simplified questionnaire.
Approximately 2,390 groups of 20 households.
One year.
No information.
Permanent organization.
Approximately 10 supervisors and 300 interviewers.
Yes.
Approximately 17 per cent.
Yes.
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
1968 Economically Active Population Survey.
Since January 1999, transition to a continuous survey system and adoption of the “one hour of work” criterion in the new questionnaire.
Emploi et chômage: enquête sur les forces de travail & Statistiques sociales (annually).
Emploi et chômage: enquête sur les forces de travail & Statistiques sociales (annually).
Approximately four months after the reference year for initial results and ten months for detailed results.
No.
Yes.