Labour Force Survey, 2023 (quarterly data with annual averages)

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 all four quarters of the year, along with an annual weight. The annual weight corresponds to the quarterly weight divided by four. The dataset should be used for an annual average rather than a quarterly distribution. If a quarterly average is desired, separate datasets are available.挪威统计统计局（Statistics Norway）于1972年启动劳动力调查（Labor Force Survey, LFS），该调查自此每季度开展一次。本调查用以统计人口的劳动力市场参与情况，并提供涵盖失业、就业、非劳动力群体、临时雇员、就业不足群体及其他登记统计未覆盖细分群体的全面信息，使其成为挪威劳动力市场状况最核心的信息来源之一。自创立伊始，该调查便以实现与国际同类调查的可比性为目标。如今，劳动力调查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。该数据集包含长期时间序列数据，尽管因问卷调整与数据收集方式变革，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，可追溯至1972年的就业者、失业者及非劳动力群体的时间序列数据均可完整呈现。2020年至2021年间，因欧盟社会统计新框架法规的落地实施，有必要对时间序列进行重大调整。本次对生产系统开展了全面修订，涉及抽样方法、加权规则、登记数据使用及问卷更新等多项调整，以实现数据收集流程的现代化与精简优化。本数据集包含年度内全部四个季度的观测数据及年度权重。年度权重为季度权重除以四的计算结果。该数据集适用于年度平均值的计算，而非季度分布分析。若需获取季度平均值相关数据，可使用专用的独立数据集。