Labour Force Survey 2023, 4th 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.

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.

挪威统计统计局于1972年设立劳动力调查（Labor Force Survey，LFS），此后每季度实施一次。该调查旨在统计人口参与劳动力市场的情况，并可提供关于失业、就业、非劳动力群体、临时雇员、就业不足人员及其他登记统计未覆盖细分群体的全面信息，这使得LFS成为挪威劳动力市场状况最重要的信息来源之一。

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，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纳入统计范畴，这使得我们可追溯至1972年，发布就业人员、失业人员及非劳动力群体的时间序列数据。

本数据集仅包含单个季度的数据及季度权重，适用于季度均值测算，而非年度分布统计。若需获取年度均值数据，可使用专用独立数据集。