Hungary
Title of the survey:
Labour Force Survey
Organization responsible for the survey:
Planning and conduct of the survey:
Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
Analysis and publication of the results:
Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
Topics covered:
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, duration of employment, duration of unemployment, discouraged workers, occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, educational level, second jobs.
Coverage of the survey:
Geographical:
Whole country.
Population groups:
All the population aged 15-74 years living in private households during the reference week. Excluded is institutional and unsettled population as well as household members temporarily absent and those residing abroad provided they have common consumption with the surveyed household.
Availability of estimates from other sources for the excluded areas/groups:
Yes, partially.
Groups covered by the survey but excluded from the published results:
None.
Periodicity:
Conduct of the survey:
Quarterly.
Publication of results:
Quarterly.
Reference periods:
Employment:
One week (last seven days prior to the date of the interview).
Seeking work:
Four weeks prior to the date of the interview.
Availability for work:
Two weeks following the date of the interview.
Concepts and definitions:
Employment:
Persons aged 15-74 years who, during the reference week:
- performed some work for at least one hour for pay in cash or in kind, or for profit;
- worked at least for one hour without pay in a family business or on a farm ("unpaid/contributing family workers");
- did not work, although having employment, as they were temporarily absent from their work because of illness, holidays, bad weather, labour-management dispute, etc.
Excluded from the employed are persons who during the survey week were engaged in the following activities:
- work without remuneration for another household or institution (voluntary work);
- construction or renovation of own house or apartment;
- housework;
- work in private garden or piece of land for own consumption.
Also included in the totals are:
- members of the armed forces (career and conscripts), the number of conscripts being derived from administrative records and imputed at the end of data processing.
- full- and part-time workers seeking other work during the reference period;
- full- and part-time students working full- or part-time;
- persons who performed some work during the reference week while being either retired and receiving a pension; or were registered as job seekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits;
- private domestic servants;
- paid apprentices and trainees.
Unemployment:
Unemployed are all persons of 15-74 years of age who did not work at all during the reference week, were actively looking for work during the four weeks previous to the interview, were available to start work within the two weeks following the survey week and were waiting to start a new job within a period of 30 days. The only exception are persons who did not look for work because they had already found work but it would start at a date subsequent to the reference period. These persons are classified as unemployed.
Underemployment:
Time-related underemployment:
Persons who, during the reference week, involuntary worked less than 36 hours.
Inadequate employment situations:
Persons who were seeking another job.
Hours of work:
Usual and actual hours worked in the main job and in the second job(s).
Employment-related income:
Income from paid employment:
Not applicable.
Income from self-employment:
Not applicable.
Informal sector:
Not applicable.
Usual activity:
Not applicable.
Classifications:
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by industry:
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
Number of groups used for coding:
No information provided.
Links to ISIC:
ISIC-Rev.3.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by occupation:
Employed persons and unemployed persons.
Number of groups used for coding:
No information provided.
Links to ISCO:
ISCO-88.
Status in employment:
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by status in employment:
Employed persons.
Groups used for classification:
5 groups (employees, employers, own-account workers, members of producers’ co-operatives, unpaid family workers).
Links to ICSE:
ICSE-1993.
Education:
Title of the classification:
National classification is used.
Population groups classified by education:
Employed and unemployed persons.
Groups used for classification:
No information provided.
Links to ISCED:
Yes.
Sample size and design:
Ultimate sampling unit:
Dwelling.
Sample size (ultimate sampling units):
About 32,000 households or some 65,000 persons
Overall sampling fraction:
0.8 per cent.
Sample frame:
The sample frame consists of 12,775 sample units which cover 751 settlements of the country and comprise about 626,000 addresses.
Updating of the sample:
Bi-annually.
Rotation:
Scheme:
Any household entering the sample at some time is expected to provide labour market information at six consecutive quarters after which it leaves the sample forever.
Percentage of units remaining in the sample for two consecutive survey rounds:
83.
Maximum number of interviews per sample unit:
Six.
Length of time for complete renewal of the sample:
18 months.
Field work:
Type of interview:
Paper and pencil.
Number of ultimate sampling units per sample area:
No information provided.
Duration of field work:
Total:
One week.
Per sample area:
No information provided.
Survey organization:
Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
Number of field staff:
About 700 interviewers and supervisors.
Substitution of non-responding ultimate sampling units:
No.
Estimation and adjustments:
Total non-response rate:
12.2 per cent.
Adjustment for total non-response:
No.
Imputation for item non-response:
No.
Adjustment for areas/population not covered:
No.
Adjustment for undercoverage:
No.
Adjustment for overcoverage:
No.
Adjustment for seasonal variations:
No.
History of the survey:
Title and date of the first survey:
Labour Force Survey, January 1992.
Significant changes or revisions:
None.
Documentation and dissemination:
Documentation:
Survey results:
Monthly Report, LFS Quarterly Bulletin and LFS Time-Series (annual).
Survey methodology:
LFS Methodology (in Hungarian and partially in English)
Dissemination:
Time needed for initial release of survey results:
No information provided.
Advance information of public about date of initial release:
Yes.
Availability of unpublished data upon request:
Yes.
Availability of data in machine-readable form:
Yes.
Website:
http://www.ksh.hu/.