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Labour Market, Social StatisticsPernille Stender
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The quarterly labour force statistic (KAS) is primarily used to structural analysis of the labour market, because the statistic has a very detailed level of information. The statistic is therefore relevant to external as well as internal users and as foundation for analyzing the populations employment over the year.
User Needs
KAS is first published in 2018 and has been requested especially by users of RAS. RAS is an annually status at the end of November on the populations primary attachment to the labour market. There are users of RAS who wish to be able to have information about the attachment to the labour market for the population broader during the year than on a specific day in the year. The statistic is furthermore relevant to municipalities with wide seasonal fluctuations in the employment over the year due to for example tourism. Besides this there is a general wish to clarify the populations attachment to the labour market in the best possible way, and with KAS as supplement to the existing and long series in RAS a better foundation for clarifying the labour market attachment for the population can be provided.
User Satisfaction
KAS is first published in 2018 with information about the populations employment 2008-2016. From 2019 and on the rest of the population are also included. The user satisfaction has therefore not been evaluated. The user's committee for labour market statistics is involved in the development of KAS.
Data completeness rate
There are no regulations in this area. KAS follows as good as possible the guidelines from the ILO (International Labour Organization). The ILO is a UN organization that, among other things, sets international guidelines for how the population’s attachment to the labor market should be measured. ILO guidelines are primarily aimed at survey-based measurements (such as the Labour Force Surveys), where individuals provide information about their labor market attachment themselves. Since RAS is based on register data, the ILO requirements have been operationalized for use in a register-based measurement. The ILO guidelines include a set of priority rules for determining the primary attachment to the labor market. According to these guidelines, employment has higher priority than unemployment, while unemployment has higher priority than statuses outside the labor force.