Labour Force Survey 2024, 3rd Quarter

Statistics Norway established the Labor Force Survey (LFS) in 1972, and it has been conducted quarterly ever since. The LFS measures the population's participation in the labor market and provides comprehensive information on unemployment, employment, people outside the labor force, temporary employees, underemployed and other subgroups that are not captured by register-based statistics. This makes the LFS one of the most important sources of information about conditions in the Norwegian labor market.

Right from the start, the aim has been to ensure that the survey is comparable with similar surveys internationally. Today, the LFS is designed in accordance with the EU's statistical regulations to ensure consistent and comparable European statistics. The LFS data contains long time series, and although there have been some breaks in the time series due to changes in the questionnaire and data collection, the most central variables have been continuously included since the start. This makes it possible to present time series data for the employed, unemployed and people outside the labor force all the way back to 1972.

From 2020 to 2021, a significant break in the time series was necessary due to the implementation of a new framework regulation for European social statistics. The production system was revised in full, with changes in sampling, weighting, use of register data, and a new questionnaire, several changes were made to modernize and streamline data collection.

The dataset consists of a single quarter, along with a quarterly weight. The dataset should be used for a quarterly average rather than an annual distribution. If an annual average is desired, separate datasets are available.

挪威统计署（Statistics Norway）于1972年设立劳动力调查（Labor Force Survey，以下简称LFS），此后每季度开展一次。该调查旨在衡量人口的劳动力市场参与情况，并提供登记统计（register-based statistics）未覆盖的失业、就业、非劳动力群体、临时雇员、就业不足者及其他细分群体的全面信息，使其成为挪威劳动力市场状况最重要的信息来源之一。
自项目启动之初，其核心目标便是确保该调查可与国际同类调查实现比对互通。如今，LFS严格遵循欧盟统计法规进行设计，以保障欧洲统计数据的一致性与可比性。LFS数据集包含长期时间序列数据，尽管因问卷与数据采集方式的调整，时间序列曾出现若干断点，但核心变量自调查启动以来始终得以保留。借此，可回溯至1972年的就业者、失业者及非劳动力群体的时间序列数据得以完整呈现。
2020年至2021年间，因欧盟社会统计新框架法规的实施，该时间序列不得不进行重大调整。生产系统得到全面修订，涵盖抽样方法、加权规则、登记数据使用方式的变更，以及全新的问卷设计，通过多项改革实现数据采集的现代化与流程精简。
本数据集仅包含单季度数据及季度权重，仅适用于季度均值的计算，而非年度分布统计。若需获取年度均值数据，可使用对应的独立数据集。