Methodology description of the labour force sample survey
REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA 1994
- Aktivno Prebivalstvo 1994
(Labour force annual survey 1994)
National Employment Office in cooperation with Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, till 1994. From 1995 Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (Zavod Republike Slovenije Za Statistiko).
- Geographical: the whole country.
- Persons covered: all persons living in private households whose usual place of residence is in the territory of Slovenia, including persons temporarily absent (less than 6 months).
Excluded are:
- institutional population,
- persons temporarily or permanently living in another country;
- persons absent longer than 6 months.
The economically active population includes persons aged 15 years and over.
- Unweighted number of observations: 25059
- Weighted number of observations: 1 988 032
The survey, which has been conducted since May 1993, is annual
The week before interviewing
Spring quarter 1994 (interviews conducted march-may)
The survey provides information on employment, unemployment, hours of work, duration of unemployment, discouraged workers, status in employment, occupation, industry, level of education.
Employed persons are those aged 15 years or over, who during the reference week:
- did some work for payment (in cash or kind) or profit;
- were not working but had job from which they were temporarily absent (maternity leave, illness, vacation);
- family workers;
- workers on lay-off.
(b) Unemployment
Unemployed persons are those who, during the reference week were not in paid
employment, were not self-employed and did no work for payment, and:
- were actively looking for paid employment, or
- were looking to set up their own business or professional practice, and
- were available to start work immediately (within two weeks), or
- had found a job to start after the reference week.
(c) Hours of work
The number of hours usually worked per week in the first job refers to hours the person
normally works, including extra hours. The number of hours actually worked during the
reference week in the first job refers to hours a person worked in the reference
week, including extra hours.
- Industry: The classification used is NACE Rev.1 at 2-digit level.
- Occupation: the classification used is the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88), at 4-digit level.
- Status in employment: twelve categories based on national circumstances, transferable to ISCE-93 categories.
- Educational level: eight categories, based on national education system, only partly transferable to ISCED.
(b) The sample: three-stage cluster sample
In the first step 150 out of 1105 local communities (primary sampling units, PSU) were selected with probability proportional to their size (PPS). The measure of size was the number of (Census) dwellings. The next stage included the census enumeration areas (secondary sampling units, SSU), of which there are about 13000 in the whole country. In each local community two enumeration areas were selected with probability proportional to their size. The final step was the random selection of dwellings. In the selected dwellings all the households were surveyed. The sample consists of two parts: the responding households from the previous LFS and the fresh LFS sample.
The SSU and the households were chosen using the population register. For this purpose the selected (adult) person determines the household to be included in the survey.
In LFS 1994 there were 8523 households, of these, 2237 from LFS 1992, 2804 from LFS 1993 and 3482 new households. The sample represents 25061 persons, i. e. 1.3% of the whole population.
(c) Rotation: every year 1/3 of households is replaced. A household is interviewed three consecutive years.
- Results of Surveys, Labour Force Survey results - Slovenia 1993 - Europe 1991. No.: 607, 1994
- Rapid reports: Labour Force Survey first results.
- Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Slovenia, 1994.