Workshop on Measuring the Transition from School to Labour Market Item 7.4 – Lessons from the 2009 LFS module on the entry of young people on the labour market 11 to 14 March 2013

Ad-hoc modules to the LFS (one topic a year): 2012 Transition from work into retirement 2011 Employment of disabled people 2010 Reconciliation between work and family life 2009 Entry of young people into the labour market 2008 Labour market situation of migrants 2007 Work related accidents, health problems & hazardous exposure 2006 2005 2004 Work organisation and working time arrangements 2003 Lifelong learning 2002 2001 Length and patterns of working time 2000 Transition from school to working life 1999 Accidents at work and occupational diseases

Main results from the CORE 2009 LFS (EU27) - ILO status - Seeking work - Education status - Apprentices - NEETs

Main results from the CORE 2009 LFS (EU27) - ILO status - Seeking work - Education status - Apprentices - NEETs

Variables of the 2009 ad-hoc module

Strengths & weaknesses of the 2009 module Date when leaving education: people failing in last programme Relevant information - on the transition back to 5 years - on orientation of education: vocational Weaknesses Difficult to capture 1st significant job (of at least 3 month) 11 variables, more questions behind (diversity of situations) No overall information on the status since leaving education Recall problems beyond 8 to 10 years after leaving education: many variables and some sample not used Too weak definition of indicators before implementation

Main results from the 2009 module Average AGE when leaving education Average DURATION of the transition in months tertiary tertiary

Main results from the 2009 module (Cont.) EU employment rate by experience after leaving education 73%

Main results from the 2009 module (Cont.) EU non-employment rate by experience after leaving education 28% Other results on first signifiant job exist (not presented here)

Dates of events (1/2): 1st job & retrospective questions Status since leaving education: no information on mainly employed, not employed Focus on persons who left within the last 5 years due to bias/ memory effect otherwise duration of the transition was 6.5 months on average with such a restriction but more than 20 months on the overall sample Difficulties in Germany and Switzerland to collect the starting date of the first significant job due to inappropriate implementation of questions on first significant job

Dates of events (2/2): leaving education

Workshop on Measuring the Transition from School to Labour Market ANNEX 11 to 14 March 2013

STOPDATE Month and year of leaving formal education for the last time … Month and year 999999 Not applicable Blank No answer JOBSTART Month and year of start of the first job of more than 3 months after leaving formal education for the last time 000000 Never had a job of more than 3 months 000001 Current job is my first job …… Month and year 999999 Not applicable Blank No answer WORKEDUC Work during studies in formal education No work or work less than 1 month per year 1 Work (only) as part of educational programme 2 Work while studying but outside educational programmes 3 Work (only) during an interruption of studies 4 Work as combination of 1 and 2 5 Work as combination of 1 and 3 6 Work as combination of 2 and 3 7 Work as combination of 1, 2 and 3 9 Not applicable Blank No answer

Variables on status after leaving education TRANSACT Main activity after leaving formal education for the last time and before starting the first job of a duration of more than 3 months 1 Employed — work in job(s) of short duration (maximum 3 months) 2 Compulsory military or community service 3 Not employed, actively looking for a job Not employed, not looking actively for a job because of: 4 Family responsibilities 5 Participation in non-formal education 6 Voluntary activities 7 Health problems 8 Other reasons 9 Not applicable Blank No answer

Variables on first significant job JOBDUR Duration of the first job of more than 3 months (after leaving formal education for the last time) … Number of months 999 Not applicable Blank No answer FINDMETH Method which allowed to find the first job of more than 3 months (after leaving formal education for the last time) 1 Via educational institution 2 Via PES (Public Employment Services) 3 Via ads in press or on the Internet 4 Submission of direct (spontaneous) job application to employer 5 Via family and friends 6 Job found after previous experience (summer/student job, apprenticeship, traineeship, voluntary job) in the same company 7 Launching private business 8 Other 9

Variables on first significant job (cont.) JOBDUR Duration of the first job of more than 3 months (after leaving formal education for the last time) … Number of months 999 Not applicable Blank No answer FINDMETH Method which allowed to find the first job of more than 3 months (after leaving formal education for the last time) 1 Via educational institution 2 Via PES (Public Employment Services) 3 Via ads in press or on the Internet 4 Submission of direct (spontaneous) job application to employer 5 Via family and friends 6 Job found after previous experience (summer/student job, apprenticeship, traineeship, voluntary job) in the same company 7 Launching private business 8 Other 9

PARHAT Highest level of education successfully completed by father or mother 1 Low: ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3c short 2 Medium: ISCED 3-4 (without 3c short) 3 High: ISCED 5-6 9 Not applicable (persons aged less than 15 or more than 34) Blank No answer PARFOR Country of birth of father and mother For coding, see ISO country classification …. 4 digits (father — 2 first digits, mother — 2 last digits) 9999 Not applicable HATVOC Orientation of the highest level of formal education attained (HATLEVEL) General education Vocational education mainly (or solely) school based Combination of school and workplace based vocational education 4 Vocational education mainly workplace based 5 Vocational education, with no distinction possible between 2, 3 and 4