EEC : Continuous Labour Force Survey - 2021

Data description

The LFS questionnaire is structured around the following themes:

• a description of the household and its members;

• the status of an activity according to the ILO definition;

• a detailed description of the current main job (occupation, working time, kind of contract, income from work, etc.);

• the level of education and participation in training;

• the receipt of benefits, including unemployment benefits and old-age pensions;

• health status;

• social and geographical origin;

• labour market trajectory over the past 12 months.

In 2021, the complementary module focuses on the labour market situation of migrants.

Statistical concepts and definitions

The LFS provides a measurement of activity, employment and unemployment according to the ILO definition. It gives a description of the job (status, occupation, working time...) according to european classifications / definitions.

It measures the concepts related to formal and non formal education following the european approach.

Statistical population

Persons aged 15 to 89, living in: ordinary housing.

Data compilation

• For metropolitan France, a two-steps weighting method is applied: calibration and non-response model on variables from the sampling frame in the first step, calibration on external data (population by age, sex and region; number of dwellings) in the second step.
• For DOM, a two-steps weighting method is also applied: non-response model on variables from the sampling frame in the first step, calibration on external data (population by age, sex and region; number of dwellings) in the second step.

Data collection documents

• Questionnaire LFS 2021 (pdf, fr)

• LFS methodological note July 2021 (pdf, fr)
• Article from Courrier des statistiques n°6 (juillet 2021) (fr)