Labour Force Survey 2021, 1st 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.挪威统计局（Statistics Norway）于1972年设立了劳动力调查（Labor Force Survey, LFS），此后该调查始终以季度频率开展。LFS旨在衡量人口的劳动力市场参与程度，并可提供关于失业、就业、非劳动力群体、临时雇员、就业不足以及其他未被登记统计（register-based statistics）覆盖的子群体的全面信息，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，该调查的核心目标便是确保其可与国际同类调查实现可比性。如今，LFS的设计严格遵循欧盟统计法规，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，尽管因问卷调整与数据采集方式变更，时间序列曾出现若干断点，但核心变量自项目启动以来始终被保留。借此可回溯至1972年，呈现就业者、失业者及非劳动力群体的完整时间序列数据。 2020年至2021年间，因欧盟社会统计新框架条例的实施，时间序列不得不进行重大调整。本次修订全面重构了生产体系，涉及抽样方法、加权规则、登记数据使用方式的调整，以及全新的问卷设计，多项变革旨在推动数据采集的现代化与流程优化。 本数据集仅包含单个季度的数据与季度权重，仅可用于季度均值计算，而非年度分布统计。若需获取年度均值数据，可使用其他独立数据集。