Labour Force Survey 1972, Year file

SSB has conducted official quarterly labour force surveys (LFS) as of the first quarter of 1972. It aims to provide the labour authorities and other interested in knowledge concerning occupational structure of population and development over time. The surveys will provide the basis and statistical material for occupational forecasting and labour market research. In the LFS, each respondent is interviewed in two consecutive quarters, then there is a break during the next two quarters, before they are finally interviewed again for two consecutive quarters. The Labour Force Survey 1972 is the first complete year. Originally these statistics were meant as an analytical complement to the monthly employment statistics, which were based on the insurance fund membership files. These statistics, however, fell away when health insurance was included in the National Insurance Scheme in January 1971, and the LFS gradually became the most important source of the state and development of the labour market.

This file covers data collected throughout the whole year in 1972.

The weighted frequencies for this file differ slightly from the published figures in NOS.

Published figures: Weighted numbers from this file:
Persons 16 - 74 years of age: 2.732.000 2.732.345

Actively working: 2.458.000 2.457.865
Not working: 274.000 274.480

Employed 1.649.000 1.648.529
Paid to work 1.547.000 1.546.975

There are errors in the NOS published figures, Table 4 Education level.
University & College Level 2 and 3 missing. This causes displacements.
120,000 too little on high school level 1 and 2 and 67,000 too many at university level.
This error is repeated in NOS up to and including 1975.