Labour Market in the Czech Republic
Development of methodology of the indicators and characteristics of their changes | Contents |
As the time went by, the LFSS conceded some changes, especially in the process of harmonisation with methodology of Eurostat. These changes partially created the possibility to develop complete and fully comparable time series. In adjusting primary data to comparable methodology, most of the methodological changes were registered and methodological discrepancies were removed. However, the reader should be informed about places where the methodological changes influenced the completeness and time comparability.
Completeness of time series: changes in methodology affect the tables where the symbol “ ” is put down in place of a figure to indicate that the respective phenomenon was not measured in the period concerned and could not be calculated retrospectively, either. Descriptions attached to the tables draw attention to such cases of incompleteness.
The more important changes appeared in these characteristics:
Population - End-of-year demographic figures interpolated for individual quarters were used for the years 1993 to 1996. An extrapolation method based on the latest end-of-year figures has been applied since 1997, the method taking account of migration of and natural changes in the population. Differences between projected and final data in 1997 and 1999 are negligible.
Education - A wider scale of the highest educational attainment according to ISCED has been used in the survey since 1998. The original stages of the highest educational attainment for the time series are used for the time being for the reason of one-way conversion. In conversion 1998 and 1999 data to data comparable with previous years, persons who graduated from the so-called 1st stage of basic school (ISCED 1) were classified to persons without school education. The 1998 increase in the number of those with no school education is also brought about by the extension of compulsory education.
CZ-NACE - Published data on industrial assignment are fully comparable, starting in the 2nd quarter of 1994. The older data, which were based on the classification of industrial activities in force at that time were re-coded to the new classification. In sporadic cases, non-convertible groups are placed under “Not identified”. Given the specifics of the Czech economy, CZ-NACE division A01 (Agriculture...) is shown separately and CZ-NACE Division A02 (Forestry, ...) is shown together with CZ-NACE Section B (Fishing, ...). Affiliation to industries is monitored by the workplace method and that is why the results differ from the reporting based on enterprise.
CZ-ISCO-88 - Like with the CZ-NACE older figures derived from the classification of occupations in force by the end of August 1995 were re-coded according to the new classification. In sporadic cases, non-convertible groups are placed under “Not identified”.
Reasons for economic inactivity - All persons who receive pensions are grouped to one category, disregarding the type of the pension received.Job seeking ways - Up to and including November 1994, only one way of seeking job was reported for persons in unemployment (or of seeking another /second/ job by employed persons). Since December 1994, two ways can be reported for both cases. This is also why the job seeking way aggregate may show a value higher than the number of persons seeking job or another (second) job.