Since 1999 an inherent part of the European Union labour
force survey (LFS) are the so called 'ad hoc modules'. The Council Regulation
No 577/98 specifies that a further set of variables may be
added to supplement the information from the core questionnaire of the LFS.
A programme of ad hoc modules covering several years shall
be drawn up each year according to the procedure laid down in Article 8
(Regulation No. 577/98):
- this programme shall specify for each ad hoc module, the
subject, the reference period, the sample size (equal to or less than the
sample
Size determined according to Article 3) and the deadline for
the transmission of the results (which may be different from the deadline
according
to Article 6),
- the
twelve months before the beginning of the reference period
for that module,
- the volume of an ad hoc module shall not exceed the volume
of the module c described under paragraph Core and outside the core
questionnaire.
The topics of the ad hoc modules are listed below.
- Modules by year
From 1999, a set of questions is added to the Labour Force Survey on a yearly but rotating basis.
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Year |
Topic |
Database description |
Data
available on Eurostat website / CD-ROM * |
Commission
regulation |
|
|
|
2011 2010 2009 |
Employment
of disabled people Reconciliation
between work and family life Entry of
young people into the labour market |
no data yet no data yet |
no data yet no data yet Yes / Yes |
(EU) No 317/2010 (EC) No 20/2009 (EC) No 207/2008 |
|
|
|
2008 |
Labour
market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 102/2007 |
|
|
|
2007 |
Accidents at
work and work-related health problems |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 341/2006 |
|
|
|
2006 |
Transition
from work into retirement |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 388/2005 |
|
|
|
2005 |
Reconciliation between work and family life |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No
29/2004 |
|
|
|
2004 |
Work organisation and working time arrangements |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 247/2003 |
|
|
|
2003 |
Lifelong learning |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 1313/2002 |
|
|
|
2002 |
Employment of disabled people |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 1566/2001 |
|
|
|
2001 |
Length and patterns of working time |
|
in preparation / No |
(EC) No 1578/2000 |
|
|
|
2000 |
Transition from school to working life |
|
Yes / No |
(EC) No 1925/1999 |
|
|
|
1999 |
Accidents
at work and occupational diseases |
|
Yes / Yes |
(EC) No 1571/1998 |
|
* Anonymised data sets for researchers only
- Selection of topics (see
LFS Main page, section Regulations)
The ad-hoc modules are set by Commission regulation by group
of three years:
|
|
- for the period 2013-2015: - for the period 2010-2012: - for the period 2007-2009: |
(EU) No 220/2010 (EC) No 365/2008 (EC) No 384/2005 |
|
|
- for the period 2004-2006: |
(EC) No 246/2003 |
|
|
- for the period 2003-2005: |
(EC) No 1626/2000 |
|
|
- for the period 2000-2002: |
(EC) No 1924/1999 |
|
|
- for the year 1999 |
(EC) No 1571/1998 |
.
- LFS core variables and publication thresholds
The LFS core variables available for each year are described
in the section LFS userguide and Annexes
Special reliability limits apply to the results because of
the specific topic surveyed and/or the specific reference period and sample:
see ad-hoc
modules reliability limits.