The Labor Force Concept ( LFK , English Labor Force Concept , LFC , German 'Arbeitskraftekonzept', also Labor Force Survey , LFS Labor Force Survey ) is a concept developed by the ILO for the statistical recording of the working population. It is used to make it easier to compare the data of the various national states on employment and unemployment worldwide.
The labor force concept classifies all persons living in private households over the age of 15, the [ civil ] labor force , into subclasses. It does not take into account the total population of a state, institutional budgets (in particular barracks, prisons, monasteries, etc.) are not taken into account . For this reason, ILO statistics differ from other employment statistics (such as those of the insurance carriers, which of course also insure institutional residents, or according to occupational and economic classifications such as ISCO and ISIC / NACE ) with regard to the number of economically active persons.
The labor force concept establishes the following classification:
The ILO figures for the states show certain deviations in the calculation basis, mainly because the age limits are not applied consistently in every country. Since the age limits are not exactly defined, there are 15 and 16 years as the lower limit and 64 as the upper limit, sometimes 74 or other values.
The table is colored in 4 percent steps:
from 24%
from 20 %
from 16%
from 12 %
from 8%
from 4 %
under 4%
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Unemployment of selected countries according to ILO / LFC worldwide, in%
According to Eurostat's practice, there are deviations from the ILO figures: In the LFK, military service and alternative military service are included in the inactive population; according to Eurostat, they are completely excluded, and they are not included in any of the main groups (employed, unemployed, inactive) not in the total number of resident population. In principle, the age limit is 15–74 years.
As a result, European and ILO unemployment figures differ by a few tenths of a percentage point, depending on the country. There are three numbers each, national, European and international.
Germany
In accordance with the recommendations of the OECD , the labor force concept has also been used in German official statistics since 1957.
Austria
Austria has only been calculating according to the international mode since joining the EU in order to pass on the data to EUROSTAT .
The main difference is that in the calculations of the Public Employment Service (AMS), unemployment is related to the number of employed persons (i.e. excluding self-employed, workers and economically active persons). The main difference in the national employment concept of the microcensus is that civil servants and military servants are counted among the employed (but are not included in evaluations based on working hours), which is handled differently at Eurostat and the ILO. This is why the national and international modes differ enormously from each other, the national calculation gives roughly twice as high figures.
In particular, however, the differences affect the countries and small regions because urban-industrial and rural areas are assessed differently. The following table shows that - sorted according to national calculation - the unemployment rates are not sorted according to the international mode, and that Vienna bears by far the main burden of unemployment in the latter case: national and international values differ least there.
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Trend: coloring in percentage points of the unemployment rate (in brackets: stock in% compared to previous year)
↑ above 1.0
↑ above 0.5
↑ to 0.5
0
↓ to 0.5
↓ over 0.5
Other Information
Unemployment in Austria (seasonally adjusted, national and international definition; 1-, 3- and 10-year trend)
Forecast 2012: 263,000 people (7.1 / 4.5%) ↑ ; 2013: 274,500 people (7.4 / 4.7%) ↑ AMS / Statistics Austria / WIFO
Source: Unemployed persons registered with the AMS, national calculation: AMS / Main Association of Social Insurance Institutions / Statistics Austria; EU trend series (international definition): Eurostat / Statistics Austria
(1) 2003 Method changed, only partially comparable
(B) increased in absolute terms, decreased relative to the workforce
literature
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: The European Union labor force survey. Methods and definitions - 2001. Luxembourg 2003, ISBN 92-894-5432-6 .
^ Statistics Austria: Meta information (definitions, explanations, methods, quality) for the 2003 labor force survey. Standard documentation, March 2003, 1st summary, important information , p. 3 ff. ( Pdf , statistik.at).
↑ cf. footnote 1 for the respective countries in ILO LABORSTA Internet: Unemployment → Main statistics (annual) → 3A Unemployment, general level.
↑ Employment and unemployment (LFS / LFS - Labor Force Survey) (employ) → main indicators (lfsi) → population, economically active persons, inactive persons (lfsi_act) → employment (lfsi_emp) → unemployment (une) → unemployment, annual averages, according to gender and age group ( Thousand people) (une_nb_a) and unemployment rates, annual averages , by gender and age group (%) (une_rt_a) , Eurostat
Argentina
ASEAN
Australia
Brazil
China, PR
Denmark
Germany
Europe
France
Greece
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Canada
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
NAFTA
New Zealand
Netherlands
Norway
Austria
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Sweden
Switzerland
Singapore
Spain
South Africa
South Korea
Thailand
Turkey
China, Rep.
United States
United Kgr.
Burgenland
Carinthia
Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Salzburg
Styria
Tyrol
Vorarlberg
Vienna