Transitions on the labour market

Description

Methodological information The figures presented here are the results of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), a survey harmonised at European level. The definitions regarding employment and unemployment that are used are those of the International Labour Office (ILO) to allow international comparison. We distinguish three ILO statuses on the labour market: employed, unemployed and inactive. The definitions applied are available here. Please note that temporarily unemployed persons are temporarily absent from work and are counted as employed. The Labour Force Survey is a continuous survey, which means that the sample is spread evenly over the 52 weeks of the year. The selected respondents answer a questionnaire mainly related to their activity in the course of a given reference week. The respondents participate four times: they participate for 2 consecutive quarters, then don’t for 2 quarters, and then participate again for 2 quarters. This way, we can observe what the labour market status of a given respondent is in a given quarter, and a quarter and/or a year later: e.g. is someone who is unemployed still unemployed in the next quarter and/or year? So, if one speaks of a particular status in a particular quarter, it is by definition the status in the reference week. If one indicates to work in the reference week of quarter Q and in the reference week of quarter Q+1, they are counted twice as employed. There are, of course, a number of cases that were unemployed in the meantime, for example, but this is beyond the scope of our data. The quarterly transitions are the sums of weighted observations of respondents who participated in the successive quarters (e.g. 2019Q4-2020Q1, 2020Q1-2020Q2). The quarter-specific annual transitions are the sums of weighted observations of respondents participating in the same quarter of two consecutive years (e.g. 2019Q1-2020Q1). The annual transitions are the means of four quarter-specific annual transitions for two successive years (e.g. 2019-2020). Respondents who did not participate in one of two waves (= interviews) cannot be taken into account in this analysis. Respondents in the longitudinal sample are in both quarters at least 15 years old and at most 74 years old. The longitudinal sample is calibrated to the estimated distributions of ILO labour market status per age, gender, region, level of education and nationality in the start and end quarters. The published figures are based on the Labour Force Survey. They are no exact figures but approximations based on the extrapolation of a random sample from the Belgian population. This must be taken into account when interpreting the results. When the unweighted number of people is lower than 30, data should be interpreted with caution. Definitions The level of education is measured using a detailed questionnaire, and the people are then divided into three groups. Low-skilled people are people who list lower secondary education as their highest level of education. Medium-skilled people are people who obtained a diploma of higher secondary education but not of higher education. High-skilled people obtained a diploma of higher education. What is the difference between permanent job and temporary job People who have an employment contract of unlimited duration are considered to have a permanent job. People who don’t have an employment contract of unlimited duration are considered to have a temporary job.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/work-training/labour-market/transitions-labour-market
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/work-training/labour-market/transitions-labour-market
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/work-training/labour-market/transitions-labour-market
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/de/themen/beschaeftigung-ausbildung/arbeitsmarkt/arbeitsmarktuebergaenge
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/de/themen/beschaeftigung-ausbildung/arbeitsmarkt/arbeitsmarktuebergaenge
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/de/themen/beschaeftigung-ausbildung/arbeitsmarkt/arbeitsmarktuebergaenge
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/de/themen/beschaeftigung-ausbildung/arbeitsmarkt/arbeitsmarktuebergaenge
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/fr/themes/emploi-formation/marche-du-travail/transitions-sur-le-marche-du-travail
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/work-training/labour-market/transitions-labour-market
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt
54 https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/themas/werk-opleiding/arbeidsmarkt/transities-op-de-arbeidsmarkt

Tags

  • marché-du-travail
  • beschäftigung-&-ausbildung
  • werk-&-opleiding
  • work-&-training
  • emploi-&-formation
  • arbeidsmarkt
  • labour-market
  • arbeitsmarkt

Topics

  • EDUC
  • ECON

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