Experiment Proposal                                    Work Package(s): WP1, WP5    

Proposed by SURS Slovenia

Name:

Linking the Statistical Register of Employment and the Labour Force Survey

Description:

The purpose of the experiment is to link and compare microdata on persons in employment in two basic sources: the Statistical Register of Employment (SRDAP) and the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Data in SRDAP are updated monthly by an administrative source, so called “M forms”, which provide for registration, changes and deregistration for mandatory social insurances in Slovenia. The M forms are used for data collection by the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia, the Employment Service of Slovenia, the Tax Administration of the Republic of Slovenia and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS). The sources for SRDAP are also the Slovenian Business Register, the Register of Spatial Units and some other SURS sources. The LFS is carried  out in compliance  with  the  International Labour Organisation (ILO) guidelines for labour force statistics and with Eurostat requirements which refer to the harmonised  EU  survey.

Expected Benefits:

The aim is to get a more thorough insight into the quality of data (e.g. educational attainment, occupation, work contract, NACE) in both sources and also in connection to determine if data validation and data editing rules in SRDAP can be improved. The quality of data in SRDAP is pretty important, since it is further used in many surveys (e.g. registered Population Census, EU-SILC, Structure of Earnings Survey, Annual Job Vacancy Statistics, Average Annual Gross Earnings, Statistical Business Register, national accounts etc.).

Data characteristics:

In the table are the main characteristics and differences between the registration data taken from SRDAP and survey data obtained by LFS for persons in employment. We plan to link the microdata by the SID (Statistical Identifier). The planned sample (app. 10,000 units) for the analysis will consist of persons who were in employment according to SRDAP on the day of the last LFS interview, had no missing data, were employed by the same employer and their matching through the SID (Statistical Identifier) will be undoubted. The work location of persons in employment in SRDAP is determined by the identification number of a local unit which is entered in the administrative M forms and then linked to a Business Register. We plan to test the location data also by linking them to the telephone directory. 

SRDAP and LFS:

Persons in employment

Register data (SRDAP)

Labour Force Survey (LFS)

regarding the source:

source is SRDAP

source is LFS

regarding the coverage:

full coverage

based on a statistical sample

regarding the observation period:

monthly

quarterly

regarding the reference period:

on the last day of the month

the activity of the respondent in the week before the interview (from   Monday to Sunday)

regarding the target population:

persons in employment are persons in paid employment with employment contracts and self-employed persons

persons in employment are unpaid family workers and persons working under contracts for work/service or for direct payment, i.e. persons who in the week (from Monday to Sunday) before the interview performed any work for payment (in money or in kind), profit or family gain

regarding the definition of the population:

all persons are taken into account, irrespective of the definition of the population, i.e. as soon as a person appears in the labour market in   Slovenia

the sample frame included persons pursuant to the definition of the population; Residents of the republic of Slovenia are persons with registered residence in Slovenia who live or intend to live in Slovenia for a year or more and are not temporarily absent from Slovenia for a year or more. Nationality of a person is not important.

regarding the publishing:

monthly in the following fields: Labour market; Labour force, Slovenia

quarterly in the following fields: Labour market; Labour force (in the LFS)

 Activities:

Planned activities:

-          Data linking and matching

-          Analysis

-          Report

 

Tool: SAS

Issues and Risks:

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Outputs

A report