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Labour and Income, Social StatisticsDaniel F. Gustafsson
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The monthly LFS supplements the quarterly LFS. Due to the smaller sample size in the monthly LFS, only aggregated series on the unemployment rate, employment rate and labour market participation rate are published.. The monthly results give a quick on going update on the development in the employment and unemployment. The monthly results are used by different users e.g. ministries, international organizations and journalists, but mainly by Eurostat.
User Needs
The LFS is used for monitoring the labour market and is especially suited to make studies on the behavior of persons on the labour market. This could e.g. be:
- How many working hours you work in the reference week, and possible overtime or absence and reasons for absence.
- How the unemployed seek work, and if they don't, what the reasons for this might be.
- Reasons why people work part-time rather than full-time and whether they want to move up to full-time.
Users are often interested in e.g. unemployed persons who are not entitled to claim social benefits, youth unemployment (15-24-year-olds), specifications on working time and international comparisons.
The data from the Danish contribution to the European Labour Force Survey (LFS) are delivered quarterly. Labour Force Surveys are carried out in every European country as well as in many other countries around the world following common concepts and guidelines. This makes the Labour Force Survey the best Danish survey for international comparisons on labour market statistics. The monthly LFS is the Danish contribution to the European Labour Force Survey and data are delivered on a monthly basis to the European Statistical Bureau, Eurostat.
The monthly LFS is supplementary to the quarterly statistics, which is used by a number of users, e.g. by ministries, research institutes, international organizations, journalists, and citizens. The monthly LFS can be used for monitoring and analysing the labour market, in research projects, public debate and contributes to Denmark always having updated knowledge on labour market issues.
Because of the smaller data basis, only a few selected variables are published monthly. This means that the analytical possibilities in the monthly data are limited compared with the quarterly data. This means that the amount of users are limited for the monthly data.
Statistics Denmark has received co-funding from the EU in order to implement a new and improved method of the monthly Labour Force Survey from September 2022.
User Satisfaction
Customers can buy access to the quarterly survey with additional questions that have relevance to the labour market. In addition there is also the option to buy a special data extract with more detailed LFS data. In connection with the above mentioned services the customer will be invited to join a survey on customer satisfaction, which is used exclusively for internal use. We ask the customers whether they are satisfied with our work, if we can do better, and if they have any suggestions.
Data completeness rate
The monthly Danish Labor Force Survey complies with EU-kommissionens implementeringsretsakt 2019/2241.
Sex- and age-disaggregated figures are submitted to Eurostat, cf. the act's ANNEX I (Option 1), but these are not published nationally, due to the size of the monthly sample.