Microcensus 2003, 2. quarter: Labour Force Survey, Lifelong Learning (SUF edition)

Full edition for scientific use. Lifelong learning: According to the regulation No. 1313/2002 by the European Commission from 19th July 2002 member states have to conduct a sample survey on the ad-hoc module livelong learning. Lifelong learning has become an important aspect of employment politics. The question programs for surveys which are obligatory through EU legal norms an for which the Office of the Federal Chancellor bears the costs may not be extended over the demands of the EU legal norm, according to the federal statistic law. An extension would therefore have to be conducted in a separate national commission. The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Arts (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kunst, BMBWK) evinced interest in such a national commission towards the Statistics Austria. Thereby the BMBWK desired extension of the special survey livelong learning to about 16 questions more concerns the question-fields attendance of courses, trainings, seminars, etc. and informal learning. The survey program consists of two parts: 1. attendance of courses, trainings, seminars, etc. outside the regular educational system (questions C2 to C21 and C24) 2. informal learning (question C23) 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 fully 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, and the like) are not included in the survey (the Microcensus special surveys are not conducted in institutional households due to organisational problems and problems with performing the surveys there). 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 demographic background, providing information, evidence and the like. In the Microcensus, the annual special LFS survey contains 70 questions in addition to the questions of the standard survey which is concerned with standard LFS topics. 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.

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终身学习（Lifelong Learning）：依据欧盟委员会2002年7月19日发布的第1313/2002号法规，欧盟成员国需针对终身学习临时模块开展抽样调查。终身学习已成为就业政策的重要组成部分。根据联邦统计法，依据欧盟法律规范强制开展、且由联邦总理府承担经费的调查问卷项目，不得超出欧盟法律规范的要求范围。因此相关扩展调研需通过独立的国家委员会开展。奥地利联邦教育、科学与艺术部（Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kunst, BMBWK）曾向奥地利统计局（Statistics Austria）表达了设立此类国家委员会的意愿。此次BMBWK希望将终身学习专项调研新增约16道题目，内容涵盖课程、培训、研讨会等正规教育体系外的学习参与情况，以及非正式学习两大议题领域。本次调研项目包含两部分：1. 常规教育体系外的课程、培训、研讨会等学习参与情况（对应题目C2至C21及C24）；2. 非正式学习（对应题目C23）。

自1983年起，欧盟（European Union, EU）所有成员国每年都会开展劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS）。该调查为欧盟委员会提供符合国际统一标准（定义与调研方法层面）的就业与失业数据基础。奥地利的劳动力调查为全年度开展，因此调研选定在每年3月进行，因为该月开展的微观普查季度调查（Microcensus-Quarterly-Survey）在时间安排上与劳动力调查最为适配。自1994年起，微观普查标准调查还会每季度开展核心问题调研，用于统计就业与失业人口数量（进而依据国际标准计算失业率）。每年3月开展的该项调查，调研时段均为受访者受访前的一周，调研覆盖全体常住奥地利的人口。对于未成功触达的受访者，需通过替换法补充相关数据，以确保可提供覆盖全体人口的调研结果。

与其他多个国家一样，奥地利的劳动力调查仅针对私人家庭人口开展；居住在养老机构、寄宿机构等公共机构中的人群并未纳入本次调研（由于组织实施难度问题，微观普查专项调研不会覆盖机构住户）。本次劳动力调查涵盖以下议题：
- 拥有/不拥有奥地利国籍的移民群体（4道题目）
- 首份工作相关特征（21道题目）
- 兼职就业相关表述（6道题目）
- 失业人员既往就业经历（7道题目）
- 求职行为（13道题目）
- 失业人员现状（3道题目）
- 学校教育与职业教育（9道题目）
- 调研前一年的生活状况（7道题目）

此外，调研还包含人口统计背景相关题目，用于获取人口信息、佐证数据等。在微观普查框架下，年度劳动力调查专项调研除了覆盖标准劳动力调查主题的标准问卷题目外，还新增70道专项题目。多年来，这些题目基本保持稳定，仅教育相关题目做过小幅调整。对于缺失的数据，将通过匹配具有相似社会人口学特征的受访者数据进行插补（imputation），确保不存在未知缺失案例。