Lithuania
Title of the survey:
Labour Force Survey (LFS).
Organization responsible for the survey:
Planning and conduct of the survey:
Statistics Lithuania.
Analysis and publication of the results:
Employment Statistics Division of Statistics Lithuania.
Topics covered:
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, wages, income, informal sector employment, duration of employment and unemployment, discouraged and occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, education/qualification skills, second jobs.
Coverage of the survey:
Geographical:
Whole country.
Population groups:
Population aged 15 years and over, living in private households (prior to 2000, civilian population aged 14 years and over), including persons absent for short periods for studies as well as household members temporarily absent. Excluded are inmates of penal and mental institution, conscripts living in barracks and foreign citizens.
Availability of estimates from other sources for the excluded areas/groups:
No.
Groups covered by the survey but excluded from the published results:
None.
Periodicity:
Conduct of the survey:
Twice a year, in May and November of each year.
Publication of results:
Twice a year.
Reference periods:
Employment:
One week.
Seeking work:
The four weeks period prior to the interview week.
Availability for work:
Within two weeks after the interview week.
Concepts and definitions:
Employment:
Employed persons are all persons aged 15 years and over who, during the reference week, were in any of the following categories:
- persons at work, either in paid or self-employment, who have worked one hour or more for wages or salaries in cash or in kind, or for profit or family income in cash or in kind;
- persons with a job but not at work, i.e. persons who have already worked in their present job (either in paid or self-employment) but were absent from work during the reference week and had a formal job attachment.
Also included in the employed are:
- persons with a job but temporarily absent from work because of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holidays, training or interruption of work due to economical or technical reasons, bad weather, breakdowns, etc.;
- persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week, while being subject to compulsory schooling, or retired and receiving a pension, or registered as job seekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits;
- full and part-time workers seeking work during the reference week;
- full or part-time students working full or part-time;
- paid apprentices and trainees;
- paid and unpaid family workers;
- private domestic servants;
- participants in employment promotion schemes who receive payment or on-the-job training;
- Career and paid volunteer members of the armed forces.
Excluded are unpaid apprentices and trainees, persons engaged in their own housework and those doing unpaid community or social work; these persons are classified as inactive.
Unemployment:
All persons aged 15 years and over who were:
- without work during the reference week;
- available for work within four weeks;
- actively seeking work, i.e. had taken specific steps (such a continued registration on the employment office records, contacts with private work agency, etc.) in the last four weeks, or had made arrangements to start a new job.
It also includes the full time and part time students seeking full time or part time work.
Persons without work, available for work but not looking for work and who report that no work is available, are excluded from the unemployed and classified as discouraged workers.
Underemployment:
Time-related underemployment:
All employed persons who either work part time because they have not been able to find a full time job and are looking for another job or persons working less than 40 hours during the reference week and are looking for another job.
Inadequate employment situations:
Not yet available.
Hours of work:
Hours worked. They include overtime, but exclude hours paid for but not worked such as commuting time between home and workplace, hours lost due to illness, holidays, unemployment, etc.
Employment-related income:
Income from paid employment:
Total cash earnings, including the employment-related social security contributions, etc. Payments in kind (foodstuffs) received for work in agriculture are excluded. It refers to all jobs.
Income from self-employment:
Gross profits.
Informal sector:
Theoretically covered by the survey.
Usual activity:
Not applicable.
Classifications:
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by industry:
Employed and unemployed persons (industry of last job for the unemployed).
Number of groups used for coding:
59 groups.
Links to ISIC:
ISIC-Rev.3.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by occupation:
Employed and unemployed persons (occupation of last job for the unemployed).
Number of groups used for coding:
28 sub-major groups, 116 minor groups and 390 unit groups.
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: employers, employees, own-.account workers, contributing family workers, workers not classified by status.
Links to ICSE:
ICSE-1993.
Education:
Title of the classification:
National classification.
Population groups classified by education:
Employed persons.
Groups used for classification:
6 groups: no schooling, primary, basic, secondary, college, higher.
Links to ISCED:
ISCED-1997.
Sample size and design:
Ultimate sampling unit:
Dwelling.
Sample size (ultimate sampling units):
8,500 persons living in 3,000 dwellings.
Overall sampling fraction:
0.3 per cent of total population.
Sample frame:
The Population Register covering the resident population.
Updating of the sample:
Continuously.
Rotation:
Scheme:
Every sampled dwelling is interviewed three times. After having been retained in the sample for two consecutive surveys and excluded from the following third round, it came back in the sample and then is definitively excluded.
Percentage of units remaining in the sample for two consecutive survey rounds:
33 per cent.
Maximum number of interviews per sample unit:
Three.
Length of time for complete renewal of the sample:
Two years and a half.
Field work:
Type of interview:
Pen-and-paper. Face-to-face for 75 per cent of respondents and phone interviews for the remaining 25 per cent.
Number of ultimate sampling units per sample area:
No information.
Duration of field work:
Total:
No information.
Per sample area:
No information.
Survey organization:
No information.
Number of field staff:
200 interviewers and 49 supervisors.
Substitution of non-responding ultimate sampling units:
No.
Estimation and adjustments:
Total non-response rate:
15 per cent.
Adjustment for total non-response:
Yes.
Imputation for item non-response:
No.
Adjustment for areas/population not covered:
No.
Adjustment for undercoverage:
Yes.
Adjustment for overcoverage:
Yes.
Adjustment for seasonal variations:
No.
History of the survey:
Title and date of the first survey:
Labour Force Survey 1994.
Significant changes or revisions:
From 1994 to 1999, persons aged 14 years and over. Implemented survey questionnaires in 1998 and 1999.
Documentation and dissemination:
Documentation:
Survey results:
Labour force, employment and unemployment (half-yearly); Economic and Social developments in Lithuania.
Survey methodology:
Labour force, employment and unemployment (half-yearly); Economic and Social developments in Lithuania.
Dissemination:
Time needed for initial release of survey results:
May results are published during the 4th quarter.
Advance information of public about date of initial release:
No.
Availability of unpublished data upon request:
No.
Availability of data in machine-readable form:
Website:
http://www.std.lt/.