Commission Report 2002 (Slovakia)

Labour force

The European Labour Force Survey is conducted in spring each year in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 577/98 of 9 March 1998. A detailed description of the sampling methods, the adjustment procedures, the definitions and the common Community coding currently used in the labour force survey is presented in the publications `Labour Force Survey - Methods and definitions, 1998' and `Labour Force Survey in central and east European countries - Methods and definitions, 2000'.

Basic concepts and definitions: All definitions apply to persons aged 15 years and over, living in private households. The concepts and definitions used in the survey follow the guidelines of the International Labour Organisation. Persons carrying out obligatory military service are not included.

Persons in employment were those who during the reference week did any work for pay or profit for at least one hour, or were not working but had jobs from which they were temporarily absent. Family workers are included.

The unemployed: all persons aged 15+, who concurrently meet all three conditions of the ILO definition for being classified as the unemployed:

• have no work,
• are actively seeking a job and
• are ready to take up a job within a fortnight.

(a)

the duration of search for a job, or

(b)

the length of the period since the last job was held (if this period is shorter than the duration of search for a job).

Inactive persons are those who are not classified as persons in employment nor as unemployed persons.

Employment rates represent employed persons aged 15-64 as a percentage of the same age population.

Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the active population aged 15 years and more.

Economic activity rates represent the active population aged 15-64 as a percentage of the population of the same age.

Since year 2000 the data refer to calendar quarters (formerly seasonal quarters).

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