LABOUR FORCE SAMPLE SURVEY (LFSS)

The labour force sample survey (LFSS) used by the CZSO is a source of information on the labour market. The survey provides information collected in households of respondents. Methodology of indicators measured by the LFSS is in line with the definitions and recommendations of the International Labour Office (ILO). Thus the data may serve as a basis for direct international comparability of labour market characteristics in various countries. At the same time, the implementing methodology of Eurostat, which explains the contents of particular market characteristics, is respected. The size of the sample ensuring reliable estimates was set as 0.7 per cent of the occupied dwellings in the CR. All the tables show annual time series figures that demonstrate the labour market developments.

Labour force includes all persons who are aged 15+ and satisfy the requirements for classification to the category of employed or unemployed persons.

The employed are all persons who are aged 15+ and were in paid employment or self-employment in the reference week. Whether their working activity was permanent, temporary, seasonal or occasional, or their job was the only (main) or second (additional), or whether they were single or multiple job holders, makes no difference. The group of the employed excludes persons on child-care (parental) leave, whose position is of a different character according to ILO methodology.

The unemployed are all persons who are aged 15+ and who met the following conditions in the reference period:

• were out of work,
• were actively seeking employment.,
• were ready to take up a job within two weeks.

Participation rate is the share of total labour force (the employed and the unemployed) in the total population aged 15+).

CZ-ICSE: CZ-ICSE is based on the revised International Classification of Status in Employment – ICSE-93, approved by the 15th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in January 1993. CZ-ICSE is obligatory down to the four-digit level.

EMPLOYEES AND WAGES

The data were obtained by means of workplace approach, i.e. from the districts of an employee‘s actual workplace, and not only from the districts of the registered enterprises. They refer to registered numbers of employees in businesses with 20 employees or more, irrespective of the number of employees in financial intermediation. In the non-business sphere, i.e. employees of all organizations funded fully or partially from the state or local budget and non-profit institutions (e.g. public beneficial institutions, health insurance companies, etc.), excluding the armed forces.

Registered number of employees includes persons under employment con­tracts (both main and second jobs) and members of cooperatives having employment contract. It excludes females on maternity leave and child-care leave, homemakers, persons on parental leave, temporary members of the armed forces (including those on compulsory community service), apprentices, persons engaged by companies under contracts for work or contracts of services, etc.

Average registered number of employees per year is the arithmetic mean of twelve average monthly numbers of employees (calculated as the sum of daily numbers divided by calendar days in the month concerned).

Data on the numbers of workers, employees and average monthly gross wages exclude employees of a part of the Ministry of Defence of the CR, the Ministry of the Interior of the CR, and some other businesses, which are not statistically measured. Data on average monthly gross wages include amounts charged to be paid in a given period.

The tabulated data on workers, employees, and average monthly gross wages in individual industries corre­spond to the Branch Classification of Economic Activities (CZ-NACE). They refer to businesses classified to the business and non-business spheres (i.e. organisations subsidised from state or local budgets partly or entirely, and non-profit institutions)

Registered job applicants are citizens staying permanently in respective area, who have no formal job or similar attachment to an employer, are not self-employed, and have asked an employment agency to find a job for them. Data on the unemployed are taken from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Registered unemployment rate is the ratio of registered job applicants to the labour force available (i.e. the employed and the unemployed). Since 1997 the available labour force has been including annual moving average of the employed as obtained by the labour force sample survey, including females on maternity leave and the armed forces (but excluding females on child-care leave) plus annual moving average of registered job applicants.