1. LAMAS Working Group 7-8 December 2016
Agenda Item 3.6 Subsampling in the future LFS
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2. Background Currently agreed sub-sampling architecture:
Q – Quarterly (main) variables
B – BACKGR, yearly (+biennial) variables
J – JOBDET, yearly (+biennial) variables
H – Minimum set of variables for HH analyses
M – Module variables
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3. Background Much more options and higher complexity than before
Main reason: split of yearly variables into B and J
Intention to implement split B/J extremely limited
Eurostat and users potentially strongly affected
-> Merge B and J again?
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4. Comments received Intended burden reduction vs. increase of complexity
Variable assignment to quarterly/yearly frequency
Implementation of current proposal feasible or not
-> Huge majority in favour of merging B and J
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5. LAMAS is invited to :
agree on merging the yearly blocks BACKGR and JOBDET into one common yearly block again
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