Labour Force Survey, 1991 [United Kingdom]: Address File

The EEC has been running Labour Force Surveys since 1960. The UK participated for the first time In 1973 and surveys have taken place every two years since then, so this is the fifth survey in this country. The main purpose of the survey is to provide statistics on the number of employed and unemployed and the kinds of jobs they do. Because different countries have different ways of recording these for official purposes it is difficult to make comparisons between countries in the EEC. One of the main aims of this survey is to provide this information on a strictly comparable basis for each country. The statistics are then used by the E.EC to develop social policies which will be applied to Britain and all the other countries. The UKs claims on the Social Fund of the Community, which disposes of many millions of pounds a year, are thus added by statistics from the survey. The data is also used by the SSC in deciding on grants for re-training programmes which are designed to combat unemployment in particular regions . This data was acquired from The Essex Data Archive with funds provided by Prof. L.N. Christofidies and the Dept. of Economics. The 1981 survey has 4 separate components. The master file contains 257,877 observations and 531 variables.

欧洲经济共同体（EEC）自1960年起便持续开展劳动力调查（Labour Force Surveys）。英国于1973年首次参与该调查，此后每两年开展一次，本次为英国参与的第五次调查。本次调查的核心目标是提供就业人口、失业人口的数量及其所从事职业类型的相关统计数据。由于各成员国针对官方统计的口径存在差异，欧洲经济共同体范围内的跨国数据对比难度较大。本次调查的主要目标之一，便是为各成员国提供严格遵循统一可比口径的相关统计数据。欧洲经济共同体将利用这些统计数据制定适用于英国及其他成员国的社会政策。英国在共同体社会基金（每年运作资金达数千万英镑）中的权益诉求，将依据本次调查的统计数据核定。社会保障委员会（SSC）也会利用该数据，为旨在降低特定地区失业率的再培训项目审批拨款提供依据。本数据集由L.N.克里斯托菲迪斯教授（Prof. L.N. Christofidies）与经济学系提供经费，从埃塞克斯数据档案馆（Essex Data Archive）获取。1981年版调查包含四个独立子模块，其主文件涵盖257,877条观测记录与531个变量。