Employed persons by professional status, sex, educational attainment level and occupation

The main aim of 2017 ad-hoc module is to provide information on the self-employed and on persons in an ambivalent professional status (at the border between employment and self-employment). The module includes 11 variables, split in 3 sub-modules. Sub-module 1: Economically dependent self-employed The first sub-module aims to measure the degree of economic/organisational dependency of the self-employed, in terms of the number of clients and the percentage of income coming from a client as well as in terms of control over working hours. This sub-module includes 2 variables:
MAINCLNT: Economic dependencyWORKORG: Organisational dependencySub-module 2: Working conditions for self-employed The aim of the second sub-module is to investigate the working conditions of the self-employed, like working with partners or using employees. It also collects factors that motivated or forced a person to become self-employed, as well as the main difficulty they face working as self-employed. This sub-module includes 5 variables:
REASSE: Main reason for becoming self-employed               SEDIFFIC: Main difficulty as self-employed                         REASNOEM: Main reason for not having employees                        BPARTNER:  Working with business partners                                    PLANEMPL:  Planning hiring of employees or subcontracting           Sub-module 3: Comparing employees and self-employed The third sub-module targets the comparison between self-employed, employees and family workers in terms of job satisfaction and autonomy. It also gathers information on the preferred professional status. This sub-module includes 4 variables:
JBSATISFQ:  Job satisfaction                                                AUTONOMY: Job autonomy                                                PREFSTAP: Preferred professional status in the main job      OBSTACSE: Main reason for not becoming self-employed 
Detailed information on the relevant methodology for the ad-hoc module (including the Commission regulation and explanatory notes) as well as documentation from each participating country (national questionnaires and interviewers instructions) can be found on EU-LFS (Statistics Explained) - Ad-hoc modules.

2017年特设模块（ad-hoc module）的核心目标是提供关于个体经营者（self-employed）以及处于雇佣与个体经营边界的模糊职业身份人群的相关信息。本模块共包含11个变量，划分为3个子模块。

子模块1：经济依附型个体经营者
首个子模块旨在从客户数量、来自单一客户的收入占比以及工作时长管控维度，衡量个体经营者的经济与组织依附程度。该子模块包含2个变量：
MAINCLNT：经济依附性（Economic dependency）
WORKORG：组织依附性（Organisational dependency）

子模块2：个体经营者的工作条件
第二个子模块旨在探究个体经营者的工作状况，例如是否与合作伙伴共同开展业务或雇佣员工。同时收集促使或迫使个人成为个体经营者的动因，以及个体经营者在从业过程中面临的主要困难。该子模块包含5个变量：
REASSE：成为个体经营者的主要动因
SEDIFFIC：个体经营者面临的主要困难
REASNOEM：未雇佣员工的主要原因
BPARTNER：与商业伙伴合作开展工作
PLANEMPL：计划雇佣员工或分包业务

子模块3：雇员与个体经营者的对比
第三个子模块聚焦于个体经营者、雇员以及家庭帮工在工作满意度与工作自主性维度的对比分析，同时收集关于首选职业身份的相关信息。该子模块包含4个变量：
JBSATISFQ：工作满意度
AUTONOMY：工作自主性
PREFSTAP：主要职业的首选职业身份
OBSTACSE：未成为个体经营者的主要原因

关于本特设模块的详细方法论信息（包含欧盟委员会法规与说明性注释），以及各参与国的相关文档（国家问卷与访员指导手册），均可在欧盟劳动力调查（EU-LFS，Statistics Explained）——特设模块板块查询获取。