Ukraine
Title of the survey:
Population Economic Activity Sample Survey (PEASS).
Organization responsible for the survey:
Planning and conduct of the survey:
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.
Analysis and publication of the results:
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.
Topics covered:
Employment (main and secondary), unemployment, hours of work, duration of employment, duration of unemployment, discouraged workers, occasional workers, industry, occupation, status in employment, educational level, as well as employment in the informal economy.
Coverage of the survey:
Geographical:
Whole country, excluding the first and the second zones of nuclear contamination by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident (forced relocation zone).
Population groups:
All the population aged 15-70 years living in private households during the reference week. Excluded is institutional and unsettled population, members of the armed force (conscripts and career) living in barracks, students living in hostels and schoolchildren living in boarding schools, as well as household members on long-time missions (six months and longer) and those residing abroad.
Availability of estimates from other sources for the excluded areas/groups:
Yes.
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 15-70 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 30 hours on individual subsidiary farming plots or in a family business or on a farm without pay ("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 on individual subsidiary farming plots for own consumption;
- voluntary work in religious, charitable or public institutions;
- construction or renovation of own house or apartment;
- housework.
Also included in the totals are:
- career members of the armed forces living in households;
- full- and part-time workers;
- 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;
- members of producers’ cooperatives.
Unemployment:
Unemployed are all persons of 15-70 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, worked less number of hours than established for a given category of occupation or job, provided they were looking for and available to perform some additional work.
Inadequate employment situations:
Not applicable.
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:
Persons engaged in any (main or secondary) nonregistered economic activity with pay in cash or in kind.
Usual activity:
Not applicable.
Classifications:
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
National ISIC-Rev.3 compatible classification.
Population groups classified by industry:
Employed persons and unemployed persons with previous job experience.
Number of groups used for coding:
159 groups.
Links to ISIC:
ISIC-Rev.3 at the third digit level.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
National ISCO-88 compatible classification.
Population groups classified by occupation:
Employed persons and unemployed persons with previous work experience.
Number of groups used for coding:
390 groups.
Links to ISCO:
ISCO-88 at the fourth digit level.
Status in employment:
Title of the classification:
ICSE-1993.
Population groups classified by status in employment:
Employed persons (main and secondary jobs).
Groups used for classification:
5 groups (employees, employers, own-account worker, members of producers co-operatives, unpaid family workers).
Links to ICSE:
ICSE-1993.
Education:
Title of the classification:
National Classification.
Population groups classified by education:
all population groups.
Groups used for classification:
8 groups (without primary general, primary general, secondary, secondary general, primary vocational, secondary vocational; not completed higher; higher (university).
Links to ISCED:
No.
Sample size and design:
Ultimate sampling unit:
Household.
Sample size (ultimate sampling units):
About 31,000 households per quarter or some 150,000 persons annually.
Overall sampling fraction:
0.12 per cent.
Sample frame:
The sample is built up automatically at the national level on the basis of the 1992 master sample (5%) drawn up for a series of special sample surveys, such as socio-demographic survey, etc. As of 2004, a new sample will be used built up on the basis of the 2001 Population Census.
Updating of the sample:
Annually.
Rotation:
Scheme:
Any household entering the sample at some time is expected to provide labour market information at four consecutive quarters after which it leaves the sample forever. As of 2004, a new rotation scheme will be introduced: the 2-(2)-2 pattern. Thus, a household will be included in the sample for two consecutive quarters, leave it for two quarters and return again for another two consecutive quarters before leaving the sample for ever. Percentage of units remaining in the sample for four consecutive survey rounds: 75 per cent.
Percentage of units remaining in the sample for two consecutive survey rounds:
Maximum number of interviews per sample unit:
Four.
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 month.
Per sample area:
No information provided.
Survey organization:
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.
Number of field staff:
About 510 interviewers and supervisors.
Substitution of non-responding ultimate sampling units:
No.
Estimation and adjustments:
Total non-response rate:
12% per cent.
Adjustment for total non-response:
No.
Imputation for item non-response:
Partial.
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:
Population Economic Activity Sample Survey, October 1995 (annual).
Significant changes or revisions:
Since 1999, the survey has been conducted quarterly.
Documentation and dissemination:
Documentation:
Survey results:
"Economic Activity of the Population" (annual), "Economic Activity of the Population: quarterly report", "Labour in Ukraine, 2002 (year)".
Survey methodology:
"LFS Methodology" (in Ukrainian 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.ukrstat.gov.ua/.