Mikrocensus 1992, 2. quarter: Labour Force Survey

This Mikrozensus special survey from June 1992 poses various questions on the topic employment an thereby gathers information which to some extent is also gathered in the Mikrozensus basic program which has been complemented with various special programs. This time the aim of the special program is more than just gaining additional information on fields such as career, job change, job seeking, etc. The aims of this survey are connected with international requirements. Austria’s efforts to become closer with the European Community (EC) and a member in the course of the 90s are probably known. These are connected with new requirements of the statistical program. All EC member states for instance have to conduct an extensive annual labour force survey. Therefore, this is a test to find out how far it is possible to conduct such a survey in Austria and it thereby also serves as a test-run for future EC-conform labour force surveys. In consequence of this connection with international requirements there is also a another change which concerns the census of employed persons. Up until now, only people who worked more 12 regular Working Time per week were regarded as employed. This has been largely substituted with the so called Labour-Force-Concept in international population census samples. According to this concept every person who works at least one hour in the reference week is viewed as employed. All international surveys and calculations which serve the purpose of international comparability support this Labour-Force-Concept. Therefore, it is also used in this special program.

1992年6月开展的本次微人口普查 (Mikrozensus) 专项调查围绕就业主题设置了多类调研问题，由此采集相关信息；该类信息在一定程度上也会通过微人口普查基础方案及配套的各类专项方案进行采集。本次专项调查的目标不止于获取职业发展、岗位变动、求职活动等领域的补充信息，其核心目标还契合国际统计规范要求。想必业界周知，奥地利曾在20世纪90年代谋求与欧洲共同体 (European Community, EC) 深化合作并申请加入欧共体，这一进程对本国统计工作提出了全新要求。例如，所有欧共体成员国均需开展大规模年度劳动力调查 (Labour Force Survey)。因此，本次调查旨在测试奥地利开展此类调查的可行性，同时也为未来适配欧共体标准的劳动力调查提供试运行经验。出于契合国际统计规范的考量，本次调查还对就业人口统计规则作出了一项调整：此前，仅将每周常规工作时长超过12小时的人群认定为就业人员；而在国际人口普查抽样中，这一认定标准已基本被所谓的“劳动力概念 (Labour-Force-Concept)”所取代。根据该概念，只要在参考周 (reference week) 内至少工作1小时的人员均被视为就业人员，所有旨在实现国际可比性的国际调查与统计核算均采用该劳动力概念，因此本次专项调查也沿用了这一标准。