Labour Force Survey 2018
Serbia, 2018
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SRB_2018_LFS_v01_M
Labour Force Survey 2018
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Serbia | SRB |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
LFS was first introduced and carried out in 1994 as a pilot survey. Starting from 1995 it was conducted regularly once a year till 2008, when it was conducted twice a year (in April and October). In 2014 it was carried out quarterly, in February, May, August and November. Then, in 2015 it switched to a continuous periodicity, which led to an enlargement of the number of households in the sample and modification in the method of estimation.
In the period from 1994 to 2003, the sampling frame was the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings from 1991, and the sample comprised approximately 3 900 households. In 2004, the sampling frame was the Census from 2002 and 6 500 households was included in the sample. During the following years the sample was enlarged, covering 44 660 households in 2014 and 54 578 in 2015. Since 2016, the planned sample includes approximately 68 640 households. Since 2014, 2011 Population Census has been used as the sampling frame.
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 01
2018
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
The LFS uses a two-stage stratified cluster sampling approach. The sample of enumeration areas (cluster of households) was selected at the first stage. A sample of households was selected in each enumeration area at the second stage.
Enumeration areas as primary sampling units are stratified according to the type of settlements (town and other) and territory at NSTJ 3 level (25 areas: Beogradska oblast, Zapadnobacka oblast, Južnobanatska oblast, Južnobacka oblast, Severnobanatska oblast, Severnobacka oblast, Srednjobanatska oblast, Sremska oblast, Zlatiborska oblast, Kolubarska oblast, Macvanska oblast, Moravicka oblast, Pomoravska oblast, Rasinska oblast, Raška oblast, Šumadijska oblast, Borska oblast, Branicevska oblast, Zajecarska oblast, Jablanicka oblast, Nišavska oblast, Pirotska oblast, Podunavska oblast, Pcinjska oblast and Toplicka oblast).
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 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 2018 |
Supervisors and trainers, who play an important role, oversee interviewers work. Supervisors are the primary link between the survey management team (trainers) in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia and the interviewers themselves; they are responsible for the field work, call centre and work quality. All the participants have clearly defined tasks and duties within a timetable. Every one of them should do their best and secure the realization of quality field work, in the scope of their duties.
Supervisors should oversee and control interviewers’ work, inform the trainers about potential problems on the field and in the call-centre, as well as report regularly about each interviewer’s work. Supervisors are under trainers’ supervision. To do additional control of conducted surveys supervisors re-call at a later date the households. This way a certain percentage of interviewed households of each interviewer are checked, incorrect data are corrected and the work of each interviewer is evaluated. Supervisors and trainers, who oversee interviewers’ work and the materials, are provided with a web application that is up-dated every three hours, and which allows controlling the reception of field materials, interviewers’ output and other data that can be indicative of potential problems during the conduction of this Survey.
Field and telephone interviewers are engaged in the collection of data. They are the main stakeholders in LFS conducting and the success of the survey depends on their work. The realization of LFS is dependent on how they make interviews, are acquainted with the essence of the questions in the questionnaire and on how they interpret them. Their diligence and efforts are also important.
Since 2015, the change in periodicity, interviews have been conducted every week (from Monday to Sunday), where in one week only one subsample is interviewed, and in the following one another subsample, and so on. The respondents provide answers about their employment activity in the week which is the reference week for them.
The first interview is made through personal contact, i.e. interviewer’s visit to the household. The interviewers have laptops with an installed electronic questionnaire. During the first visit, the interviewers record household’s contact telephone in order to carry out the next three interviews through the call-centre. The interviewer collects first sociodemographic information for each household member, and then information about employment status of members aged 15 and over. In the next round, the interviewer checks the socio-economic information collected in the first interview, and then she/he gathers information about the employment status for the current quarter. The interviewer must make sure that the person providing information for other household members has correct information.
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) 2018, Ref. SRB_2018_LFS_v01_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_2018_LFS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Metadata preparation |
| Poverty- GP | The World Bank | Metadata preparation |
2019-05-03
Metadata version
Version 01 (May 2019)