Final report of the task force for evaluating the 2004 LFS ad hoc module on work organisation and working time arrangements

European Commission Eurostat

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ISSN 1725-065XFinal report of the task force for evaluating the 2004 LFS ad hoc module on work organisation and workingtime arrangementsTHEMEPopulationand socialconditions2 0 0 6 E D I T I O NEurope Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European UnionFreephone number (*):00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11(*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00-800 numbers or these calls may be billed.A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet.It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu).Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006ISBN 92-79-02559-7ISSN 1725-065X© European Communities, 2006Table of contentsIntroduction ........................................................................................................................................................3Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................3General description of the ad hoc module .........................................................................................................5Problems encountered in the implementation of the survey ..............................................................................7Quality ...................................................................................................................

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• Social research
• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 14
• Langue: English

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ISSN 1725-065X

Final report of the task force for evaluating the 2004 LFS ad hoc module on work organisation and working time arrangements

THEME Population and social conditions

Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union

Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00-800 numbers or these calls may be billed.

A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu).

Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006

ISBN 92-79-02559-7 ISSN 1725-065X

© European Communities, 2006

Table of contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................3

Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................3

General description of the ad hoc module .........................................................................................................5

Problems encountered in the implementation of the survey ..............................................................................7

Quality ...............................................................................................................................................................12

Presentation of the results .................................................................................................................................19

Other issues .......................................................................................................................................................21

Annexes .............................................................................................................................................................23

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,QWURGXFWLRQ The Task Force on Evaluation of the 2004 LFS Ad Hoc Module on Work Organisation and Working Time Ar- rangements met once in November 2005. Besides staff from Eurostat and DG EMPL the Task Force consisted of experts from INSEE (FR), ISTAT (IT), the Statistical Office of Hungary (HU), Statistics Finland (FI) and the ONS (UK). The following report serves two main purposes. The first and the main objective is to assess the implementation of the ad hoc module in 2004 and make recommendations for the benefit of future repetitions of the module. A second objective of the report is to assess the quality of the data that were collected in 2004. The material for this report are quality reports delivered from 23 of the participating countries describing the operation and providing quality estimates of the ad hoc module. These quality reports supplement quality re- ports on the core LFS in 2004 that all but two Member States delivered. Besides, ten Member States delivered final reports in accordance with grants they had received in order to implement the ad hoc module. Following the Task Force in November, further enquiries were made due to some irregularities in the data sets (Annex 6) The report closely follows the discussions of the Task Force meeting in November and benefits from the prior analysis and contributions of each of the Task Force members. In addition, the expert from Italy undertook a separate analysis of columns 209 and 210, which is included in Annex 4 and the expert from DG EMPL made a separate analysis of the use of columns 216 and 217, which is included in Annex 5. The report is organised in six main sections. The first section contains the executive summary with the main findings and the Task Force recommendation for future implementations of the module or ad hoc modules in general. The second section describes the ad hoc module in general terms and deals with quality issues not covered in other sections. The third section looks at the implementation of the ad hoc module, going into details for each of the 11 characteristics of the ad hoc module. The fourth section summarises quality aspects of the ad hoc module, using the standard format for quality that has been developed in Eurostat. It also deals with comparability across countries and with the previous ad hoc module conducted in 2001. The fifth section makes suggestions such as how best to present statistics from the ad hoc module while the sixth final last sec- tion covers two remaining issues on the relationship between the ad hoc module and the core questionnaire and on quality reports.

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