Summary information

Study title

Italian Labour Force Survey – July (2017)

Creator

Istat

Study number / PID

SN187 (UniData)

Data access

Information not available

Series

RFL - Labour Force Survey

The Italian Labour Force Survey is one of the major surveys carried out on national territory on the evolution of the Italian labour market. The survey - in addition to detecting the number of employed and unemployed persons, and their distribution in different productive sectors - also collects information on the general working conditions (nature of contracts, skill levels, safety conditions, etc ...). The official evaluations of the main aggregates of the job offer are produced and disseminated monthly at the national level and on a quarterly basis at the regional level; every year...

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Abstract

The Italian Labour Force Survey is the main source of statistical information on the Italian labor market. The information gathered from the population constitutes the basis on which official estimations of employment and unemployment are calculated, as well as information on the main job's issues - occupation, sector of economic activity, hours worked, contracts' type and duration, training. The survey data are used to analyze a number of individual, family and social factors too, such as the increasing labor mobility, changing professions, the growth in female participation, etc.., which determine the difference in labor participation of population. The questionnaire is divided into several sections. In particular, in addition to the first socio-demographic information, the first section covers the employment status during the interview's week, dealing with questions about the type of work, hours worked, motivations about the unemployment status, the type of contract. The second section - reserved for employed people - covers the main job, investigating in particular the position in the profession, the industry in which he works, the company he works for, working full-time or part-time and reasons for his selection, working hours, overtime hours, shift work, job transfer, salary, job satisfaction. The third section - always reserved for employed people - concerns the secondary work (if any). It's exclusively addressed to respondents who carry out another activity compared to the main one and only detects certain information such as: type of activity, type of contract, occupation, economic sector he works in. The fourth section - for unemployed people - collects information about previous work experiences: last work, type of contract, occupation, economic sector, the reasons why it stopped working. The fifth section deals with the job search. It investigates the reason for seeking a job, the actions put in place to look for it, the channels used to look...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/07/2017 - 30/09/2017

Country

Italy

Time dimension

longitudinal (panel)

Analysis unit

individual
family

Universe

whole national population

Sampling procedure

42,631 families, 94,179 individuals. Two-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

individual data

Data collection mode

Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)

Access

Publisher

UniData - Bicocca Data Archive

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

ISTAT data are released in according to Creative Commons – Attribution 3.0 Licence, available here. The redistribution to the third party, even in partial form, of data available to UniData members only is not allowed.

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