1. 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

2. 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

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

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

5. Variables of the 2009 ad-hoc module

6. 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

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

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

9. 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)

10. 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

11. Dates of events (2/2): leaving education

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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