Portugal
Title of the survey:
Inquérito ao emprego.
Organization responsible for the survey:
Planning and conduct of the survey:
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Analysis and publication of the results:
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Topics covered:
Employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, income, duration of employment and unemployment, discouraged workers, occasional workers, second jobs, industry, occupation, status in employment, education.
Coverage of the survey:
Geographical:
Whole country.
Population groups:
Resident non-institutional population aged 15 years and over living in private dwellings. Excluded are persons living in collective houses if they have not family links with the private households and those living in mobile homes.
Availability of estimates from other sources for the excluded areas/groups:
Not applicable.
Groups covered by the survey but excluded from the published results:
Not covered.
Periodicity:
Conduct of the survey:
Continuous survey.
Publication of results:
Quarterly.
Reference periods:
Employment:
The week preceding the interview.
Seeking work:
Four weeks preceding the interview.
Availability for work:
Two weeks after the interview.
Concepts and definitions:
Employment:
Employed are all those, aged 15 years and over who, during the reference week:
- had worked for earnings or benefits (in cash or in kind) for at least one hour;
- while not working, they had a job and maintain a formal link with it;
- owned a business but were absent from work for a certain reason;
- were pre-retired but were working during the reference week.
Also included in the employed are:
- persons with a job but temporarily absent due to illness or injury, during 3 months maximum, annual leave, maternity/paternity or parental leave, education or training leave, labour management dispute, bad weather, mechanical breakdown;
- on unpaid leave initiated by the employer or on lay-off with or without pay during 3 months maximum;
- full or part-time workers seeking other work during the reference period;
- persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week while subject to compulsory schooling, retired and receiving a pension, registered as jobseekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits;
- full and part-time students working full or part-time;
- paid apprentices and trainees;
- participants in employment promotion schemes;
- unpaid family workers;
- seasonal workers, if the season is starting within 3 months;
- volunteers and career members of the armed forces.
Unemployment:
Persons aged 15 years and over who were not working during the reference week, were available for work within two weeks, were seeking work (i.e. had taken specific steps to seek employment) during the last four weeks or were not working nor searching but have found a job to start within 3 months.
Are also included in the unemployed:
- persons who were seeking and/or available for work while being subject to compulsory schooling or retired and receiving a pension;
- full and part-time students seeking full or part-time work and immediately available for work.
Specific steps to find a job are as following: contacts with public employment office or private agency (temporary work agency, firm specialized in recruitment, etc.); applications to employers; seeking assistance from friends, relatives, unions, etc.; placing, answering or studying job advertisements; taking a recruitment test or examination or being interviewed; looking for land, premises or equipment; applying for permits, licences or financial resources.
Underemployment:
Time-related underemployment:
Employed persons aged 15 years and over who, during the reference week, were willing to work additional hours (looking for additional job to current job(s), another job with more hours than in current job(s) or more hours in current job(s)) and were available to work additional hours.
Inadequate employment situations:
Working conditions such as education level, remuneration, that, compared to others, may lead to a reduction of competence or productivity of workers.
Hours of work:
Actual hours in main and second jobs: number of hours actually worked during the reference week, including overtime but excluding absences. Usual hours in main job: number of hours usually worked per week, including usual overtime.
Employment-related income:
Income from paid employment:
Net earnings of employees: monthly earnings for regular payments and annual amounts for others.
Income from self-employment:
Not applicable.
Informal sector:
Not applicable.
Usual activity:
No information.
Classifications:
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
NACE.
Population groups classified by industry:
Employed and unemployed (industry of last job for the unemployed).
Number of groups used for coding:
No information.
Links to ISIC:
ISIC-Rev.3.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
National Classification of Occupations (CNP 1994).
Population groups classified by occupation:
Employed and unemployed (occupation of last job for the unemployed).
Number of groups used for coding:
No information.
Links to ISCO:
ISCO-88.
Status in employment:
Title of the classification:
No information.
Population groups classified by status in employment:
Employed and unemployed (status of last job for the unemployed).
Groups used for classification:
Employees; employers with employees; own-account without employees; unpaid family workers; others.
Links to ICSE:
ICSE-1993.
Education:
Title of the classification:
No information.
Population groups classified by education:
Employed and unemployed.
Groups used for classification:
10 groups.
Links to ISCED:
No information.
Sample size and design:
Ultimate sampling unit:
Dwellings.
Sample size (ultimate sampling units):
20,747 dwellings.
Overall sampling fraction:
0.68 per cent.
Sample frame:
Results of the 1989 Electoral Census and the "Geographical Spatial Reference Framework" used for the 1991 Census of Population and Housing.
Updating of the sample:
No information.
Rotation:
Scheme:
Dwellings remain in the sample for six consecutive quarters. Each quarter one-sixth of the sample is replaced.
Percentage of units remaining in the sample for two consecutive survey rounds:
83.3 per cent.
Maximum number of interviews per sample unit:
Six.
Length of time for complete renewal of the sample:
Six quarters.
Field work:
Type of interview:
Computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI).
Number of ultimate sampling units per sample area:
No information.
Duration of field work:
Total:
Continuous survey.
Per sample area:
No information.
Survey organization:
Interviewers are recruited for each survey.
Number of field staff:
No information.
Substitution of non-responding ultimate sampling units:
No.
Estimation and adjustments:
Total non-response rate:
10 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:
Inquérito ao emprego 1974.
Significant changes or revisions:
1983-1997: quarterly survey. Beginning 1998: continuous survey, sample design revised and modifications of the survey questionnaire.
Documentation and dissemination:
Documentation:
Survey results:
Boletim Mensal de Estatística (monthly); Estatísticas de Emprego (quarterly).
Survey methodology:
Estatísticas de Emprego (quarterly).
Dissemination:
Time needed for initial release of survey results:
About 2 months after the end of the quarter.
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.ine.pt/.