Microcensus 2000, 1. quarter: Labour Force Survey (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. Since 1983 labour force surveys (LFS) are conducted annually in all European Union (EU) member states. The LFS serve as a basis for internationally compatible (in terms of definition and survey method) data on employment and unemployment for the European Commission. In Austria, the LFS is conducted in full annually. The chosen month therefore is March because in this month the Microcensus quarterly-survey which is most suitable in terms of scheduling for the LFS is performed. Central questions for the assessment of the number of employed and unemployed persons (and as a result for the calculation of the unemployment rate according to international standards) are in addition (since 1994) asked quarterly in the Microcensus standard survey. The survey conducted in March always relates to the week before the interview and includes the whole population, which means everybody who has their main residence in Austria. Data for persons not found have to be added via a substitution method so that results for the whole population can be provided. In Austria (as well as in several other states), the LFS is only conducted among the population in private households; people who live in institutions (retirement homes, boarding homes, etc.) are not included in the survey. These are topics of the LFS: -> immigrants with and without the Austrian citizenship (4 questions) -> features of the first job (21 questions) -> statements on part-time jobs (6 questions) -> previous employments of unemployed persons (7 questions) -> job-seeking (13 questions) -> situation of unemployed persons (3 questions) -> school and professional education (9 questions) -> situation one year previous to the survey (7 questions). Furthermore, there are questions on the socio-demographic background. The questions have remained more or less the same over the years. The only questions that have been changed slightly were those on education. Missing information is substituted with information from persons with similar socio-demographic variables (imputation), so that there are no unknown cases.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。自1983年起，欧盟（European Union, EU）所有成员国每年均开展劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS），该调查为欧盟委员会提供符合国际统一定义与调查方法的就业、失业统计数据基础。
奥地利的劳动力调查为全样本年度调查，因此调查月份选定为3月，因为当月开展的微型人口普查（Microcensus）季度调查在日程安排上最适配劳动力调查的需求。自1994年起，用于评估就业与失业人口数量（进而依据国际标准计算失业率）的核心问题，也纳入了微型人口普查的标准季度调查中。
3月开展的调查均以访谈前一周为参考周期，覆盖所有在奥地利拥有常住居所的人口。对于未能成功访查的对象，需通过替代赋值法补充其数据，以确保能够呈现全体人口的统计结果。与其他多个国家一致，奥地利的劳动力调查仅针对私人家庭住户人口，居住在养老机构、寄宿公寓等公共机构中的人群不在调查范围内。
本次劳动力调查涵盖以下主题：
- 拥有/不拥有奥地利国籍的移民群体（共4个问题）
- 首份工作相关特征（共21个问题）
- 兼职工作相关情况说明（共6个问题）
- 失业人员既往就业经历（共7个问题）
- 求职相关情况（共13个问题）
- 失业人员现状（共3个问题）
- 学校教育与职业培训（共9个问题）
- 调查时点前一年的生活与就业状况（共7个问题）
此外，调查还包含社会人口学背景相关问题。多年来绝大多数调查问题保持稳定，仅教育相关问题做过小幅调整。对于缺失的数据，将通过相似社会人口学特征个体的信息进行赋值补全（插补法，imputation），确保不存在未知样本。