Statistics Lithuania. State Data Agency

Living Standard and Employment Statistics Division

29 Gedimino Ave
LT-01500 Vilnius, Lithuania

7 June 2024

7 June 2024

7 June 2024

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=EU_labour_force_survey_-_documentation#Classifications

All economic sectors

The Lithuanian Labour Force Survey is a private households survey. The population of the survey – all permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania, living in private households, including those who are temporarily abroad for a period of less than one year. The population also includes foreign nationals who have been living in Lithuania at least a year.

Only members actually living in the selected private household are interviewed. Household is a person or a group of persons  sharing the same living accommodation and expenditures, including collective provision of vital needs.

Questions relating to labour status are put to all persons aged 15-89

Unemployed person is a non-working person of an established aged 15–74 who has been actively looking for a job in the last four weeks and is ready to start working in two weeks.

Long-term unemployed person is an unemployed person who has been looking for a job for one year or longer.

Inactive persons – persons who are neither working nor looking for a job and who can be categorised as neither employed nor unemployed.    

Employed persons refer to persons doing any kind of work, for which they are remunerated in cash or in kind or have income or profit. In the survey, the employed population is defined as persons aged 15–89 who were doing any kind of work for at least one hour in the reference week for which they have been remunerated in cash or in kind or had profit or income, as well as those who had a job but temporarily were not working.

Labour force refers to the total employed population and the unemployed.

Activity rate is an indicator expressed as a ratio of the labour force of the selected age group to the total population of the same age.

Unemployment rate is an indicator expressed as a ratio of the unemployed to the labour force.

Employment rate is an indicator expressed a ratio of the employed population of a selected age group to the total population of the same age.

Housekeeping

Members living regularly together in the same dwelling, sharing household expenditures, food and other essentials for living.

Usual residence (12 months).

The data collection shall be carried out in each Member State for a sample of observation units constituted by private households or by persons belonging to private households who have their usual residence in that Member State.

Statistical population – all permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Data is available from 1998; 

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

The LFS produces different indicators with different measures:

• Numbers;
• Percentages.

•           Quarter

•           Year

EU level:

The EU-LFS is based on European legislation since 1973. The principal legal acts, currently in force, are the Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 establishing a common framework for European social statistics, the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/256 establishing a multiannual rolling planning, the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2181 regarding items common to several datasets, and the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240 which specifies the implementation rules, technical items and contents of the EU-LFS.

National level:

Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2240 of 16 December 2019 specifying the technical items of the data set, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in the labour force domain in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

Labour Force Statistical Questionnaire GU-01 (Quarterly) approved by Order DĮ-308 of 23 December 2022 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania

Member States shall make available to the Commission (Eurostat) the data and metadata required under the Regulation 2019/2240 using the statistical data and metadata exchange standards specified by the Commission (Eurostat) and the Single Entry Point.

The Commission (Eurostat) shall, in cooperation with Member States, publish the aggregated data on the Commission (Eurostat) website, in a user‐friendly way, as soon as possible and within six months of the transmission deadline for annual and infra‐annual data collection.

Data sharing and exchange between international data producing agencies, for example, a Eurostat data collection or production that is in common with the OECD or the UN.

EU level:

Regulation (EU) No 557/2013 17 June 2013 as regards access to confidential data for scientific purposes and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002. It implements the Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Statistics, which sets criteria for confidentiality of data.

National level:

In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality policy guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

Data is released after checking it does not reveal confidential data. Administrative identifiers, interconnecting statistical identifiers and any other identification data shall be removed (or they shall be modified to an extent where they cannot directly identify the unit to which they relate).

In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality Policy Guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

Statistical Disclosure Control Manual, approved by Order No DĮ-107 of 26 April 2022 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania;

The State Data Governance Information System Data Security Regulations and Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the State Data Governance Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-202 of 27 August 2021 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

During the preparation of Lithuanian LFS microdata, it is ensured that direct or indirect identification of respondents is not possible.
Microdata are accessible for scientific purposes and can be provided according to the Description of Procedures for the Provision of Confidential Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes of Statistics Lithuania.
More detailed information is available at this website: https://open-data.stat.gov.lt/.

(1) the Member States shall transmit pre‐checked microdata without direct identifiers, according to the following two‐

step procedure:

(a) during the first three years of implementation of this Regulation, as provided for in Article 11(4):

— for quarterly data: within ten weeks of the end of the reference period,

— for other data: by 31 March of the following year;

(b) from the fourth year of implementation as follows:

— for quarterly data: within eight weeks of the end of the reference period,

— for other data regularly transmitted: by 15 March of the following year,

— for other data concerning ad‐hoc subjects: by 31 March of the following year.

Where those deadlines fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the effective deadline shall be the following Monday. The detailed topic income from work may be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) within fifteen months of the end of the reference period.

(2) The Member States shall transmit aggregated results for the compilation of monthly unemployment statistics within 25 days of the reference or calendar month, as appropriate. If the data are transmitted in accordance with the ILO definition, that deadline may be extended to 27 days.

Official Statistics Calendar

European social statistics are provided on the basis of equal treatment of all types of users, such as policy‐ makers, public administrations, researchers, trade unions, students, civil society representatives including non‐ governmental organisations, and citizens, which can access statistics freely and easily through Commission (Eurostat) databases on its website and in its publications.

Statistical information is prepared and disseminated under the principle of impartiality and objectivity, i.e. in a systematic, reliable and unbiased manner, following professional and ethical standards (the European Statistics Code of Practice), and the policies and practices followed are transparent to users and survey respondents.

All users have equal access to statistical information. All statistical information is published at the same time – at 9 a.m. on the day of publication of statistical information as indicated in the calendar on the Official Statistics Portal. Relevant statistical information is sent automatically to news subscribers.

The President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, their advisers, the Ministers of Finance, Economy and Innovation, as well as Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania or their authorized persons, as well as, in exceptional cases, external experts and researchers have the right to receive early statistical information. The specified persons are entitled to receive statistical reports on GDP, inflation, employment and unemployment and other particularly relevant statistical reports one day prior to the publication of this statistical information on the Official Statistics Portal. Before exercising the right of early receipt of statistical information, a person shall sign an undertaking not to disseminate the statistical information received before it has been officially published.

Statistical information is published following the Official Statistics Dissemination Policy Guidelines and Statistical Information Dissemination and Communication Rules of Statistics Lithuania approved by Order No DĮ-176 of 2 July 2021 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

Results are disseminated to all users at the same time.

First release, quarterly (4x), yearly (1x), ad hoc module results (1x)

Monthly unemployment

Statistical information is published in news release Employment and unemployment (not later than on the 43 day after the end of the reference period)

More information and new releases is available on the Official Statistics Portal (http://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/home).

All statistical information, publications and news releases  are available for users on the Official Statistics Portal (http://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/home).

• https://osp.stat.gov.lt/informaciniai-pranesimai?eventId=296957
• https://osp.stat.gov.lt/informaciniai-pranesimai?eventId=296959
• https://osp.stat.gov.lt/informaciniai-pranesimai?eventId=296961
• https://osp.stat.gov.lt/informaciniai-pranesimai?eventId=325513
  
  

Statistical indicators are published in the Database of Indicators (Population and social statistics –> Employment and unemployment).

The page of Database of Indicators is dedicated to viewing and analyzing statistical information. More information on the Database of Indicators can be found in the User's Guide of the Database of Indicators.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

LFS methodology (http://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/metodai18)is available on the Official Statistics Portal (in Lithuanian only)

All statistical information, publications and news releases  are available for users on the Official Statistics Portal. Most of information request come straight to the Living Standard and Employment Statistics Division. If request is not exceptional or complicated it is answered within ten working days starting from the working day following the registration of the request for information. If specific LFS data is required, user must contact with Statistics Dissemination and Communication Division to fill special request form (info@stat.gov.lt).

In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality Policy Guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

Statistical Disclosure Control Manual, approved by Order No DĮ-107 of 26 April 2022 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

The State Data Governance Information System Data Security Regulations and Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the State Data Governance Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-202 of 27 August 2021 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

In case of better contact with users there is a possibility to ask questions on the website of State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), LFS description and definition are published (in Lithuanian and English languages). Either meetings with users and  media representatives are organised. The anonymous LFS micro database is available for users from research institutions. For confidentiality reasons some data (name, address, birth date, name of the workplace,  etc) are excluded from database and some data are given only by major groups (economic activity, occupation, etc).  State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), in response to the needs of users of statistical information, provides them with access to open data sets with data on statistical observation units. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Open data.

Further information can be found on Official Statistics Portal:

https://open-data.stat.gov.lt/

Y

Researchers

Statistics Lithuania may, on the basis of contracts concluded with higher education institutions or research institutes, provide statistical data to researchers of these higher education institutions and research institutes to carry out specific statistical analyses for research purposes. Statistical data are provided in accordance with the provisions specified in the Description of Procedure for Data Depersonalisation and Pseudonymisation (only in Lithuanian). More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, in the section Data Provision.

Statistics Lithuania aiming to better satisfy the need for statistical information, provides users with opportunities to access open data sets with data on statistical observation units. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, in the section Open Data.

In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality Policy Guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

Statistical Disclosure Control Manual, approved by Order No DĮ-107 of 26 April 2022 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

The State Data Governance Information System Data Security Regulations and Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the State Data Governance Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-202 of 27 August 2021 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

Further information can be found on Official Statistics Portal: https://open-data.stat.gov.lt/

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

See below.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Methodological documents are published on the Official Statistics Portal section Employment and unemployment. "Explanatory notes for interviewers conducting Labour Force Survey" are made.

Methodological documents are published on the Official Statistics Portal section Employment and unemployment

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

The main users of statistical information are State and municipal authorities and agencies, international organisations, the media, research and business communities, students, whose needs are satisfied without a breach of the confidentiality principle. Employment data are required for the assessment of changes in the national labour market, formation of social and economic policy, social decision-making, and assessment of the country’s economic development level, economic forecasting, and international comparison of labour market indicators.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

All indicators established by the legislation are published.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

NUTS 3

LAU

NUTS 3, employement by municipalities (LAU)

NUTS 3

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

The survey is conducted using a simple random sampling method. About 8 thousand households are interviewed every quarter. Sampling units are all private household members living at the address of the person sampled.

Coefficients of variation and confidence intervals of the basic parameters are estimated for these variables:

Number of unemployed persons;

Number of long-term unemployed persons;

Number of employed persons;

Unemployment rate;

Youth (aged 15–24) unemployment rate;

Activity rate (of the population aged 15–64);

Employment rate (of the population aged 15–64).

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

In the calculation of the coefficient of variation (CV) for the employment rate, it is assumed that the denominator, that is, the population, is sufficiently accurate, and any potential variability is considered negligible for the CV calculation.

Clan 97-a SAS program for computation  of point and standard error estimates in sample survey.

NR

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

See in the 13.3.1. Coverage error section in Annex.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

See in the 13.3.1. Coverage error section in Annex.

References to Annex File.

 See below.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

See below.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Depending on the nature of the statistical survey, it is considered that there are no indicators that should be mandatory filled in. Therefore, in the case of non-response of the indicator and in the absence of the possibility to check whether the value of the indicator should be filled in (compared to administrative or previous year's data), this is not considered as non-response of the indicator.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

NA

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an Official Statistics Calendar. In case of delay, users are notified in advance by indicating the reason and a new date of publication.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Statistical information is comparable across the EU.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Fully comparable.

Since 1998.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

In 2023, EUR 608 thousand is foreseen for the statistical survey of Labour Force.

In 2023, about 8 thousand households are interviewed every quarter.

The average time spent by respondents on the compiling and reporting of Questionnaire of 2023 was 9 minutes.

Statistics Lithuania focuses on the reduction of the statistical reporting burden for respondents. The obligations of Statistics Lithuania to implement the Law on Reduction of Administrative Burden of the Republic of Lithuania and to reduce statistical reporting burden for respondents are provided in the Statistical Reporting Burden Reduction Policy.

Further information on burden reduction can be found at https://osp.stat.gov.lt/statistines-atskaitomybes-nastos-mazinimas.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Average duration of the interview is 9 min.

The revision policy applied by Statistics Lithuania is described in the Description of Procedure for Performance, Analysis and Publication of Revisions of Statistical Information.

Y

Y

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

The sources of quarterly statistical information are the Labour Force Survey and administrative data from the State Social Insurance Fund Board (Sodra) and the Population Register.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) quarterly and annual datasets with pre-checked microdata that comply with validation rules according to the specification of variables for their coding and filter conditions set out in Annex I of the Regulation 2019/2240. Member States and the Commission shall agree on additional validation rules that shall be fulfilled as a condition for transmitted data to be accepted.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. Before data dissemination, the internal coherence of the data is checked.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.

References to Annex File.

References to Annex File.

Not requested for the LFS quality report.