1. LAMAS Working Group 7-8 December 2016
Agenda Item 6 CONCLUSIONS
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2. IESS - feasibility studies
List of studies after IESS: add longitudinal weights
Starting date of IESS implementation: derogations? Estat will clarify the situation and come back to LAMAS
Studies on employment/unemployment in 2017: Estat will investigate
ILO pilot tests in 2017 on status of employment
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3. IESS - Breaks in time series
Countries are free to choose the strategy to tackle the break (national responsibility); Estat is coordinating the exercise
Estat will prepare 2 timetables (Q1 2019, Q1 2020) with actions linked to flowcharts and breaks
Will be discussed in TF1: list of indicators, parallel sample, release date, time span of revision, etc.
TF1 proposal -> Discussion with small group of countries outside TF1 -> Decision in June 2017 LAMAS
Estat will provide funding
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4. Definition of household and residence
General support from LAMAS on definitions
Estat will work on detailed guidelines for the specific cases, especially tertiary students
No family ties in the definition of HH concept
Discussion in Estat about acceptance criterion for deviations (margin of error instead of 0.1pp)
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5. Model questionnaire on employment/unemployment
Compliance with ILO criterion: no final decision yet, further checks needed (esp. on "pay and profit")
Starting point for 'At work' = V1/V5 as most countries currently follow this approach
Small jobs: interim solution for the short term, plea from ILO for recovery questions
TF1 will work on detailed & simplified (without the criterion 'one box – one question') flowcharts
For absences: parental leave, etc. will be tackled by TF1
Dependant interviewing to be further discussed in TF1 and TF3
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6. Work organisation and working time arrangements
Test for RECHOURS and PLACEWK in Germany
Estat service contract for RECHOURS, PLACEWK, OTHERLOC
PLACEWK to be tested as proposed by DG EMPL (with 6 answer modalities)
Results will be analysed by TF2 (April 2017) -> proposal to June 2017 LAMAS
Model questionnaire outside legal basis
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7. Working time Two options still alive:
Working time in 2nd job, NACE 2nd job and EXIST2J on #of jobs
Working time in all jobs, NACE 2nd job and EXIST2J on 2nd job
Look at current French practice for total working time
Ask Estat NA colleagues for written opinion
Inform LAMAS about Estat NA needs
Make proposal to be discussed in TF2 -> June 2017 LAMAS
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8. Care needs LAMAS not fully satisfied with NEEDCARE
General agreement on broadening the entry filter
Can live with the revised option 2, where answer category 3 will be improved (AT proposal)
Check that respondents are not asked twice
Further reflection on answer modalities of the REASon variables
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9. MIGREAS
LAMAS supports inclusion of this variable in the core LFS as biennial variable
Only asked to people aged 15+, without automatic coding for people migrating when aged 15-
Further improve categories linked to employment (EL proposal)
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10. Subsampling LAMAS agrees to merge BACKGR and JOBDET
Further work by TF3 on dependant interviewing and subsampling, input from June 2015 workshop
Report back to LAMAS
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11. Educational variables and 'Young people on the labour market' module
LAMAS agrees to drop HATMONTH
Overall support to include HATWORK in the annual core LFS but with filter reduction -> TF2 should come with precise proposal (age 15-34?, people currently studying?)
Commitment to have module with max 7 variables
Estat will work on burden estimation -> June 2017 LAMAS (with TF2 or TF3)
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12. Labour Market Flows LAMAS welcomes the development work done
Recognition of the importance for users
Average for quarterly flows: agreement on dissemination as experimental statistics (written consultation on data to be published; national data (all breakdowns) can be transmitted) -> make clear to users that it is model-based, experimental statistics
Year to Year flows: Full support from LAMAS for task force discussion late 2017
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13. Quality monitoring of MUR estimates
Training in the Netherlands:
travel costs reimbursed for 1 delegate per country
Participation to be communicated before 15 January
General support on the quality framework
Work in progress; annual exercise
Document will not be published (internal LAMAS)
Excel table to be made available for countries
MUR implementing act to be discussed in June 2017 LAMAS meeting; before revised version to be circulated
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14. Variance estimation in the LFS
2015 data transmission of PSU, STRATA, SSU and FSWEIGHT
AT, BE, DE, FI, HR, IE, IT, LU, NL, RO, SE, SK missing
To be sent as soon as possible to Estat (not possible for DE)
Also for EFTA and candidate countries
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15. Ad hoc requests and confidentiality
For tailor-made tables with only 'b' flags:
LAMAS agreement to publish the list of requests with reference period and without info on users
For tailor-made tables with 'c' flags:
Estat will prepare a draft agreement and countries will check it with their legal unit
DE, DK, IE will check their position as regards ECB
Estat will discuss with users about consequences
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16. Other business EMCO IG meeting New template for quality reporting
Regional issues
Feasibility studies for 1km² grid rejected; Estat will look at alternative methods
Anonymised microdata
LFS main indicator releases
SDMX for Labour Statistics
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17. Next LAMAS meeting Input harmonisation Breaks in time series
Regular modules: labour situation of migrants and transition to retirement
List of variables and burden estimation
MUR implementing act
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