Microcensus 2003, 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, 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.

供科研使用的完整版数据集。自1983年起，欧盟（European Union, EU）所有成员国均每年开展劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS），旨在为欧盟委员会提供符合国际统一定义与调查方法的就业与失业统计数据基础。奥地利的劳动力调查为全量年度调查，因此将调查月份定为每年3月，因为该月恰好开展适配劳动力调查调度需求的季度微观普查（Microcensus）。自1994年起，用于评估就业与失业人数（进而依据国际标准计算失业率）的核心问题，也在微观普查的标准调查中按季度开展。3月开展的调查始终以受访前一周为参考周期，调查覆盖所有在奥地利拥有固定住所的人群。对于未成功触达的受访者，需通过替代法补充数据，以确保可提供全人口层面的统计结果。奥地利与其他多个国家一致，劳动力调查仅针对私人家庭中的人群开展；居住在养老机构、寄宿机构等公共机构中的人群未被纳入调查范围——由于组织实施困难，微观普查的专项调查无法覆盖机构住户。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相关问题（共4题）
- 首份工作特征相关问题（共21题）
- 兼职工作相关陈述类问题（共6题）
- 失业人员既往就业经历相关问题（共7题）
- 求职相关问题（共13题）
- 失业人员现状相关问题（共3题）
- 学校教育与职业培训相关问题（共9题）
- 调查前一年的生活状况相关问题（共7题）
此外，调查还包含人口统计背景相关问题，以提供人口信息与佐证数据等。在微观普查框架下，年度劳动力调查专项模块除覆盖标准劳动力调查主题的常规问题外，还额外包含70道问题。多年来这些问题的设置基本保持稳定，仅教育相关问题有过小幅调整。对于缺失的信息，将通过匹配相似社会人口学特征的受访者数据进行插补（imputation），确保不存在未知数据情况。