1. Working Time Item 8.1 of the agenda
Meeting Of The European Directors of Social Statistics
Luxembourg, 4-5 October 2016

2. IT IS A VERY COMPLEX ISSUE
Working time
IT IS A VERY COMPLEX ISSUE

3. A MULTISOURCE APPROACH
HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU WORK?
HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU GET PAID TO WORK?
IS YOUR WORK SHEDULE FLEXIBLE?
HOW MANY HOURS WHERE YOU ABSENT FROM WORK?
PARTLY OR ON A FULL TIME SCALE?
ARE YOU ACTIVE IN THE BLACK ECONOMY?
DO YOU DO VOLUNTARY WORK?
LABOR FORCE SURVEY
REGISTER BASED WORKING TIME ACCOUNT

4. SURVEY AND REGISTER BASED
The Labor Force Survey
Contractual (in most cases 37 hours per week)
Normal (can include overtime paid or unpaid)
Actual (in the reference week, absence and flexible work hours)
The reserve army
The Register Based Working Time Account
Performed, registered and paid working hours
Used in NA to calculate average number of employed and total number of performed working hours in the reference period

5. Figure 1 – Normal, Contractual & Actual

6. Figure 2 - Actual no absence, Normal, Actual >0, Contractual

7. Figure 3 Performed and paid survey & register based

8. Figure 4 – Total employment register & survey based

9. WORKING TIME DATA ARE IMPORTANT
There is a huge user demand
There is focus on:
Productivity
Work life/family life balance
Labor supply
The multisource approach has some advantages:
LFS has information on ‘the reserve army’
The working time account can give you very detailed information on paid working hours in different parts of the economy, on educational background on geography and on gender

10. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION