1. Debriefing from the December 2017 LAMAS meeting Item 4
Debriefing from the December 2017 LAMAS meeting Item 4.2 of the draft agenda
DSS Meeting 1 and 2 March 2018

2. Content of the presentation
Flowcharts for (ILO) employment/unemployment
Break in time series exercise
Monthly pay from main job
Modules to be included in the LFS in the next six years
Follow-up of previous presentations to the DSS
Structure as follows: conclusions of the October 2017 DSS (black), progress made by December 2017 LAMAS (blue) and next steps (red)

3. 1. Flowcharts for (ILO) employment/unemployment
ICLS resolution: more restricted scope for employment
Improved comparability:
Definition of employment in the LFS legal framework
Deep revision of the list of variables for employment/unemployment (labour status module)
Flowcharts for the labour status module introduced for the modernised LFS: simplified (legal basis) and detailed (outside)
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4. 1. Flowcharts for (ILO) employment/unemployment
Agreement on:
Definitions of parental (job-related income/duration)/maternity/paternity leave
Simplified approach for older respondents/ permanently disabled people that can only be interviewed in first wave:
Persons aged 75 to 89 years
Persons outside the labour force and either:
Either aged 70 to 74 years
Or unable to work due to long-standing health

5. 1. Flowcharts for (ILO) employment/unemployment
Addition of a sub module on small or occasional jobs
Including examples of small or occasional jobs
Compromise proposal: derogations based on results of pilot surveys on the significance and place of the question on occasional jobs
Next step:timing/sample size of the pilot and relation with the break in time series pilot

6. 2. Break in time series exercise
Exercise to take place the year before the entry into force of IESS
Focus on main policy-relevant indicators used in EU policies
Possible methodological approaches
Member States will be asked to transmit by the end of year N for each 14 series (indicator/breakdown):
EITHER quarterly/annual correction factors (multiplicative or additive) to be applied to the back data
OR full break free time series covering 2010 Q1 to year N-1 Q4

7. 2. Break in time series exercise
For annual data (EU requirements) and quarterly data (national requirements)
Priority to coordinated dissemination at national and EU level – not to all country data at the same time
May N+1 as the ultimate deadline for dissemination at EU level of all countries data
EU aggregates flagged in transition period (mix of both break-free/not break-free national time series)
Next steps:
Detailed planning on national data transmission/dissemination
Final national decisions on methodological approaches
Bilateral basis, LAMAS, LFS methodological Workshop in Reykjavik on 17/18 May

8. 3. Monthly pay from main job
Monthly pay collected either gross or net
Transmitted to Eurostat as gross values
As an amount as this is needed to compute the EU aggregates
Reference period is 'calendar month' to be as close as possible to the reference week used for the labour status module (either calendar month preceding the reference week or calendar month of the reference week)

9. 3. Monthly pay from main job
Big progress has been achieved so as to improve the quality of this variable with:
Compulsory imputation when INR (before imputation) is more than 5%
Data source and imputation method is a national responsibility (advice of methodologist experts)
Introduction of a flag variable (gross or net collection/ imputation for non-response (and from which data source) )
Creation of an electronic discussion group on best practices for net/gross conversion models
Next steps: dissemination plan in June 2018 LAMAS

10. 4. Modules to be included in the LFS in the next six years
2019: Work organisation and working time arrangements
2020: Accidents at work and work-related health problems
2021: Labour market situation of migrants
2022: Job skills
2023: Pensions and labour market participation
2024: Young people on the labour market

11. 4. Modules to be included in the LFS in the next six years
2019 module: regulation adopted
2021 module: technically ready and approved by LAMAS
2022, 2023 and 2024 modules: development phase/piloting from September 2018
2020 module: LAMAS proposal to keep it unchanged compared to 2013.
Written consultation of DSS on the Implementing Regulation for the 2020 module and on the Delegated Act on the programme of LFS ad-hoc modules

12. DSS is invited to …
Take note of the on-going development work on flowcharts (employment and unemployment), break in time series and ‘monthly pay from main job’ variable for future LFS
To agree on launching a written consultation of the DSS on:
The implementing act on LFS ad-hoc module 2020
The delegated act on the programme of LFS ad-hoc modules
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