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1.1. Contact organisation | Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Unit F3: Labour market and lifelong learning |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 2920 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 28/05/2018 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 28/05/2018 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 27/01/2020 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The section 'Labour mobility' provides demographical and labour statistics on people either born in European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) area or having the citizenship of an EU/EFTA country and residing elsewhere on the EU and EFTA territories except their country of birth/citizenship. This implies aggregating the estimates coming from Labour Force Survey samples (EU-LFS) of all EU/EFTA countries except that of origin or nationality to find all the persons of a certain nationality or country of origin that reside elsewhere where the EU rules regarding the free movement of people apply. More specifically, they can be identified only if effectively a changed of residence implying crossing a border has taken place, meaning they reside (or intend to do so) in another country for at least 12 months. Short term movements are therefore not taken into account. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
The EU-LFS results are produced in accordance with the relevant international classification systems. For this specific section, the following classifications are used: ISO 3166 for country codes, ISCED 2011 for the level of education, ILO guidelines supplemented by Regulation 1897/2000 provisions for status on the labour market. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
As a general rule the EU-LFS covers all economic sectors. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Immigrants are persons who established their usual residence in another country than they were born, for a period that is – or is expected to be – at least 12 months. The usual residence means the place at which a person normally spend the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absence for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friend and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage or, by default, the place of legal or registered residence.
The tables under this section group together the immigrants with common origins or nationality, residing on EU and EFTA territories. Therefore, a first set of tables groups the immigrants residing in the EU and EFTA territories by their country of birth and looks at their number and employment rates by age group, sex or education attainment level. For instance, the estimates on immigrants born in a specific EU/EFTA country from all reporting countries are grouped together and give the corresponding statistics for that country of birth.
A second mirror set of tables groups the immigrants residing in the EU and EFTA territories by their country of citizenship and looks at their number and employment rates by age group, sex or education attainment level. This results in the following online tables:
Set 1 – by country of birth
Methodological note: due to legal constraints, Germany does not transmit to Eurostat the 'ISO 3166 Country codes' for the variable 'country of birth'. The data for this variable are transmitted in an aggregated form that allows only distinguishing native-born from foreign-born people. Consequently, for persons residing in Germany but who were not born in Germany there is no detailed information on which country they were born in. In order not to calculate these statistics excluding the persons to be found on the German territory, the variable 'country of citizenship' is used as a proxy for 'country of birth'.
Set 2 – by country of citizenship
For more details on the definitions and concepts in the EU-LFS, please consult EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) - Methodology. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Person |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Persons of working age (from 15 to 64) living in private households and residing in any of the European Union and EFTA countries except Lichtenstein for which EU-LFS does not collect data. In order to eliminate the influence of young persons who are most likely still completing their studies – and thus being actually not active on the labour market – this section also provides separate statistics for 20-64 age subgroup. A separate focus on European Union territory is also provided (e.g. persons of working age – either from 15 to 64 or from 20 to 64 – living in private households and residing in any of the EU Member State) |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
European Union, the UK and three EFTA countries (except for Lichtenstein). As the European Union changes its composition as a consequence of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, during the transition period two EU aggregates are disseminated in parallel, respectively:
To these a third and a forth aggregate including the three EFTA countries (except for Lichtenstein) are added in this dataset:
Data for Cyprus refer only to the areas of Cyprus controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
2007 onwards |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable |
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The demographical tables are expressed in thousands of persons while those on employment rate are expressed in percent. |
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Calendar year |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
The EU-LFS is based on European legislation since 1973. Its implementation is governed by legislative acts of the Council and Parliament, as well as of the Commission. The principal legal act is the Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98. The implementation rules are specified in the successive Commission regulations. This is the main regulation with provisions on design, survey characteristics and decision making processes. For more details on the regulations, please consult EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) - Main features and legal basis. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
EU-LFS microdata, as received by Eurostat from the national statistical institutes, does not contain any administrative information such as names or addresses that would allow direct identification. Access to this microdata is nevertheless strictly controlled and limited to specified Eurostat staff. After data treatment, records are aggregated for all further use. For more information on publications guidelines and thresholds, please consult: EU-LFS - Data and publications. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Data in 'EU-LFS series – Specific topics' are not bound by an advance release calendar |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Data in 'EU-LFS series – Specific topics' are not bound by an advance release calendar |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users. |
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The frequency of the dissemination is explained above, under section 8.1. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Not applicable |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
For more information on data and publications, please consult: EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) - Data and publications. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Please consult free data on-line in Eurobase or refer to ESTAT-LFS-USER-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
EU-LFS anonymised microdata are available for research purposes. Please refer to access to microdata. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
For a detailed description of methods and concepts used, as well as for other documents related to the EU-LFS, please consult the EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage. The EU-LFS disseminates also publications on the methodology of the survey. For more information please consult: Quality reports and methodological publications. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
See section 11.1. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The concern for the quality of labour statistics in general and of the EU-LFS in particular has been expressed in Regulations, reflected in harmonised definitions and discussed in Working groups (such as the Labour Markey Statistics Working Group and its predecessor the Employment Statistics Working Group), workshops and seminars within the European Statistical System (ESS). |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The overall quality of EU-LFS statistics is considered as high. National LFSs are considered as reliable sources applying high standards with regard to the methodology. However, the EU-LFS, like all surveys, is based upon a sample of the population. The results are therefore subject to the usual types of errors associated with random sampling. Based on the sample size and design in the various Member States, Eurostat implements basic guidelines intended to avoid publication of figures that are unreliable or to give warning of the unreliability of the figures. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Migration statistics and demographic statistics in general are widely used to plan actions, evaluate programmes and monitor trends in a number of social and economic policy fields. In particular, the active participation of immigrants in the EU labour market is very important for social cohesion and having productive and effective societies. The labour mobility is of particular interest to policymakers who are working to build and develop the premises for a win-win experience for all parties involved.
EU-LFS results are used mainly by the DG Employment and a number of other Directorates of the Commission for measurement and monitoring of policy agendas purposes. Key users include National Statistics Institutes (NSIs), international organisations, news agencies and researchers, which use of various aspects of EU-LFS data for international or intra EU comparisons. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
No user satisfaction surveys are carried out. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Even if otherwise adhering to the EU regulations on the EU-LFS, countries do not always provide data for all the variables. This can be for various reasons, such as assessment that the variable in question is irrelevant to the labour market situation in the country or (temporary) inability to implement the variable in the national questionnaire. Also, data availability depends on fulfilling confidentiality and accuracy requirements. Thus, some indicators may be partially incomplete for some breakdowns. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The overall accuracy is considered as high but she sample is not specifically designed to follow immigrants. Thus, many breakdowns available for native-born population may be unavailable for the foreign-born population, the corresponding data being confidential or not enough accurate. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Annual data under this section are available approximately 6 months after the end of the reference year. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
For 2016 throughout all EU-LFS countries data were transmitted to Eurostat within an average of 62 calendar days. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Published estimates stemming from the EU-LFS are considered fully internally coherent, since arithmetic and accounting identities in the production of EU-LFS datasets are observed. Very slight differences can be observed solely when comparing EU aggregates by country of birth with tables 'Population – LFS series' (lfsa_pop) and 'Employment rates – LFS series' (lfsa_empr). They are explained by using proxy variable for 'country of birth' (for more details see section 3.4 – Methodological note). |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Revisions of previously released data are not expected, unless major errors are identified in the data delivered or in their processing. Exceptional revisions may happen e.g. after new estimates of population from a population census. EU-LFS results are revised whenever revised quarterly EU-LFS data become available. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
For information on EU-LFS data revisions, please consult EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) - Data and publication. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The source of the data is the EU-LFS. For more details please refer to the ESMS page on 'Employment and unemployment (LFS)' |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Survey includes both quarterly variables and annual variables (i.e. collected only once a year). |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
The data is acquired by interviewing the sampled individuals directly. For more information please consult the EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) webpage. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Prior to the dissemination of national data, EU-LFS results are validated by the Member States and checked for plausibility by Eurostat. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
The data at country level - either by country of birth or citizenship - are EU aggregates by adding up national data series (see details at section 3.1. Data description). Rates/Ratios are subsequently calculated from the data expressed in absolute values (i.e. number of persons).
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
No adjustments. |
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No notes. |
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