EU Labour Force Survey and teleworking

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EU Labour Force Survey and tele-working
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EU Labour Force Survey until 1998

• 15 national Labour force Surveys
• Same concepts, definitions and classifications
• Minimum set of common variables
• Once a year in Spring
• Representative unemployment figures at regional
  level
• Data transmitted within 9 months after the end of
  field work

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EU Labour Force Survey Additional EU
specifications from 1998 onwards

• A continuous survey
• providing quarterly results
• within 12 weeks after the end of the reference
  period
• Possibility of ad hoc modules on labour issues
• Precision of quarterly changes
• Principles for the formulation of the questions
  on labour status

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EU Labour Force Survey The future

• Introducing the possibility of surveying some
  variables only yearly
• Wages and salaries will become compulsory
• Introduce some new variables like IC
  technologies are needed to carry out the work at
  home and to transmit the result of work to the
  employer

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EU Labour Force SurveyAvailability of the data
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EU Labour Force SurveyAvailability of the data
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EU Labour Force Survey Home work

• The variable exists since 1992
• If the place of work comprises a separate unit
  (for example, a doctor's surgery or tax
  consultant's practice) which is adjacent to the
  person's home but contains a separate entrance,
  then work performed there should not be
  considered to be done "at home".
• Similarly, a farmer is not to be regarded as
  working "at home" when he is occupied in fields
  or buildings adjacent to his house. In the case
  of employees, "working at home" should be
  interpreted strictly in terms of formal working
  arrangements, where it is mutually understood by
  the employee and the employer that a certain part
  of the work is to be done at home. Such an
  arrangement may be explicitly included in the
  terms of employment, or may be recognised in
  other ways (for example, if the employee
  explicitly notifies the employer of this work by
  completing a timesheet, or by requesting
  additional payment or other form of
  compensation). This arrangement is also
  recognised if an employee is equipped with a
  computer in his home in order to perform his
  work.
• Other typical examples of "working at home"
  include travelling salesmen who prepare at home
  for appointments with clients which are then held
  at the clients' offices or homes, or persons who
  do typing or knitting work which on completion is
  sent to a central location.

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EU Labour Force Survey Home work

• "Working at home" does not cover cases where
  employees carry out tasks at home (because of
  personal interest or pressure of time), which
  under their working arrangements might equally
  have been performed at their place of work.
• Code 1 Person usually works at home "Usually"
  in this context may be interpreted to mean that
  during a reference period of four weeks preceding
  the interview, the person did work at home within
  the framework of an agreement as described above,
  and the number of occasions on which he did so
  amounted to half or more of the days worked in
  this period.
• Code 2 Person sometimes works at home
  "Sometimes" in this context may be interpreted
  to mean that during a reference period of four
  weeks preceding the interview, the person did
  work at home within the framework of an agreement
  as described above, but the number of occasions
  on which he did so amounted to less than half of
  the days worked in this period.
• Code 3 Person never works at home "Never" in
  this context may be interpreted to mean that
  during a reference period of four weeks preceding
  the interview, the person did not on any occasion
  work at home within the framework of an agreement
  as described above.

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EU Labour Force Survey Home work - all employment
of home workers in total employment
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EU Labour Force Survey Home work - employees
of home workers in total employees
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EU Labour Force Survey Home work
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EU Labour Force Survey Home work
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EU Labour Force Survey IC technologies use
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EU Labour Force Survey IC technologies use

• This variable refers to the situation in the main
  job.
• Tele-work in this sense occurs when employees,
  who are expected to work usually or sometimes
  from home, carry out all, or part of their work
  at home and transfer the product of their work to
  the employer using information and communication
  technologies.
• The person can either be the owner of the
  computer or not and it is not necessary that the
  totality of his work is produced and transmitted
  to the employer through a PC

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EU Labour Force Survey IC technologies use
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