Labour Force Survey 2015
Serbia, 2015
Identification
SRB_2015_LFS_v02_M
Labour Force Survey 2015
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Serbia | SRB |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Labour Force Survey was carried out in our country for the first time in 1994, as a pilot survey, and since 1995 this has been conducted as a regular annual survey. In previous surveys, the frame for sample selection was the 1991 Census of population, households and dwellings and the survey sample included about 3900 households.
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia publishes the final data of the Labour Force Survey 2015. The survey was conducted quarterly (four times) in 2015 in the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
The Labour Force Survey is a survey that collects data on the main characteristics of labour force, which are used to estimate the total labour force in our country. It is primarily aimed at obtaining data on three basic, contingent and mutually exclusive categories of population: employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons. The data serve to monitor, measure and evaluate economic and social trends in the Republic of Serbia. The main areas that are measured are employment and unemployment, economic inactivity, as well as demographic, socio-economic, educational and other characteristics of population in each of the mentioned areas.
Sample survey data [ssd]
The unit of observation is every member of every randomly selected household, and the unit of selection is the household selected in the sample.
Version
Version 02
Weighting method has changed.
2015
Scope
The scope of the survey includes:
- Demographic characteristics: age, sex, marital status, place/country of birth, nationality, ethnicity, place/country of previous residence, educational attainment, relationship to household head.
- Main labour related characteristics: employment, unemployment, underemployment, hours of work, wages, employment related benefits, employment in informal sector, informal employment, social security coverage, training received, usual activity, production for own final use by the household, voluntary work, absence from work.
- Other labour related characteristics: industry, occupation, status in employment, institutional sector (public/private), size of establishment, full time/part time status, permanency of the job, working time arrangements, type of workplace, duration of employment, existence of more than one job, characteristics of the second job, duration of unemployment, previous working experience, characteristics of the last job, search for another job, reasons for seeking another job, methods of looking for work, reasons for not being in the labour force.
Coverage
National coverage
The survey covers all persons in individual, (non)institutional households on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, without the Region Kosovo and Metohija, which represent usual population.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia |
Sampling
Sampling frame is based on data of the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings that was carried out in the Republic of Serbia in 2011. It is formed by excluding all enumeration areas with 19 or less households. The frame has been reduced by 1.5%. A two-stage stratified, rotation panel sample is used in the Survey.
The units of the first stage are enumeration areas, and those of the second stages are households. Enumeration areas, as primary units, are stratified by type of settlements, into urban and other settlements, as well as by territory covered by the administrative districts. The target sample size for 2015 is 54578 households in 5422 enumeration areas.
The estimation was based on two-stage stratified sampling design, assuming that the selection procedure for the first stage is proportional to the size with replacement, and for the second stage it is simple random sampling without replacement. The initial weights are results from the applied sampling design that was corrected for non-response. In order to reduce the effect of non-response and to obtain estimates for population that correspond to current demographic projections, the procedure of post-stratification was applied.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015 |
Data Access
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Serbia Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2015, Ref. SRB_2015_LFS_v02_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI_SRB_2015_LFS_v02_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Metadata preparation |
| Poverty- GP | The World Bank | Metadata preparation |
2016-11-15
Metadata version
Version 01 (November 2016)