Transcript Measurement of the dimensions of the quality of employment through the Labour Force Survey in the Republic of Moldova 18-20 April 2007, Geneva.

Measurement of the dimensions
of the quality of employment through the
Labour Force Survey
in the Republic of Moldova
18-20 April 2007, Geneva
The main topics
 Economically active population / activity rate
 Employed population / employment rate
Employed population in main/ secondary activity (by economic
activities, occupations, status in employment, working time and its
duration, employment in the own subsidiary plot, etc.)
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Unemployment / unemployment rate
Long term unemployment, youth unemployment etc.
Economically inactive population
Discouraged persons
Etc.
Ad-hoc modules
 Decent Work (2004)
 Youth on the Labour Market (2004-2006)
 Work organisation and working time arrangements (2007)
Additional Labour-related Statistics
 Employment in the Informal Sector
 Informal Employment
 Time-related Underemployment / Volume of time-related
Underemployment
 Inadequate Employment situations: skill-related, incomerelated and related to excessive hours
 Stability and Security of Work
 Safe Work
 Employment-related Income
 Trade union membership
 Labour Migration
Employment in the Informal Sector
 ILO: Resolution concerning statistics of employment in
the informal sector , 15th ICLS, 1993
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• The legal status of the unit in which the respondent is
working
• Registration of the unit
• The size of the unit
• Kind of the work place (the placement)
Informal Employment
 ILO: Guidelines concerning a statistical definition of
informal employment, 17th ICLS, 2003
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
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Hiring type (work contract / agreement)
The employer pays social contributions for the employee
The possibility to benefit from paid annual leave
The possibility to benefit from paid sick leave
Time-related underemployment
Volume of Time-related Underemployment
 ILO: Resolution concerning the measurement of
underemployment and inadequate employment
situations,16th ICLS, 1998
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
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Actually worked hours (main and secondary activity)
Underemployment reasons
Willingness to work additional hours
Availability to work additional hours (number of additional
hours)
• Modality to work additional hours
Inadequate employment situations
 ILO: Resolution concerning the measurement of
underemployment and inadequate employment situations,
16th, 1998
1. Skill-related inadequate employment
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
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Does the current occupation correspond to the qualification
Respondent’s qualification / training field
Willingness to change the current employment situation
The main reason for which he/she wishes to change the
current employment situation
• The search for another job
Inadequate employment situations
(continuation)
2. Income-related inadequate employment
3. Inadequate employment related to excessive hours
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• Willingness to change the current employment situation (for 2
and 3)
• The main reason for which he/she wishes to change the
current employment situation (for 2 and 3)
• The search for another job (for 2 and 3)
• The main reason for which the person has worked more than
40 hours (for 3)
Stability and Security of Work
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
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Hiring based on a work contract or agreement
Contract/agreement duration (of limited or unlimited duration)
For unlimited duration: employment period at the current job
For limited duration:
The main reason for which the employee has work contract /
agreement of limited duration
b) Work contract / agreement duration
Safe Work
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• Exposure at workplace to some harmful factors that
have negative impact on health
• Which are these factors
Employment-related Income
 ILO: Resolution concerning the measurement of employmentrelated income, 16th ICLS, 1998
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• Earnings received by employees
• Income obtained by self-employed
• The estimated value of the income of agricultural producers
who produce for their own consumption
Trade union membership
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• Is he/she member of a trade union
Labour migration
Questions in the LFS Questionnaire:
• Temporarily absent person who has left abroad for less than 1
year:
 To work
 To search for a job
• Temporarily absent person who has left abroad for more than 1
year:
 To work
 To search for a job
• Country of destination
Projects in the future
Development of the statistics:
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Labour migration
Entry of the young people into the labour market
Child labour
Employment of the disabled people
Time use
Elena VATCARAU
Head of Division of Labour Market Statistics and Demography
tel.: +373 22 403 099
e-mail: [email protected]
Elena BASARAB
Deputy Head of Division of Labour Market Statistics
and Demography
tel.: +373 22 210 847
email: [email protected]