Basic data from Labour Force Survey (LFS) seasonally adjusted

Statistical concepts and definitions (obligatory in 2021): 

Employed persons are all persons aged 15-89 years who during the reference week:

• performed for at least one hour any work generating pay or income, i.e. were employed in  a public company/institution or by a private employer, worked on their own (or leased) agricultural farm, or conducted their own economic activity outside agriculture, assisted (without pay) in work on family agricultural farm or in conducting family economic activity outside agriculture,
• had work but did not perform it:
  • due to sickness, vacation, parenthood related leave (maternity leave, childcare leave, paternity leave or parental leave), working time arrangement (work system or compensation for overtime hours), training related to the performed work;
  • due to a seasonal nature of work if they continue to regularly perform tasks and duties for the job or business off-season (excluding fulfilment of legal or administrative obligations);for other reasons if the expected period of absence from work does not exceed 3 months.
  • for other reasons if the break in employment does not exceed 3 months.

In accordance with the international standards - also include apprentices who entered into occupational training or occupational preparation contract with a  private or public employer, if they received remuneration.

The following persons are not included among the employed: voluntary workers or trainees not receiving any pay, persons employed in private agriculture (on farms owned by natural persons) who produce agricultural products exclusively or mainly for their own use.

Employed persons by the category of status in employment (in accordance with the International Classification of Status in Employment ICSE-93):

• a self-employed person - a person who conducts his/her own economic activity

      of which

• employer - a person who conducts his/her own economic activity and employs at least one employee,
• self-employed person without employees – a person who conducts his/her own economic activity and does not employ any employees,

• an employee - a person employed in a public entity or by a private employer (on the base of employment contract or civil law contract); among this category there are also included persons performing outwork or apprentices with whom employers or natural persons signed a contract for occupational training or training for a particular job if they receive any pay,
• a contributing family member - a person who contribute to the conduction of family business  without any contractual pay.

Among self-employed persons are also included agents in all agency systems.

Unemployed persons - persons aged 15-74 years who simultaneously meet the three conditions:

• in the reference week were not employed (according to the above definition of this population),
• were actively looking for work, i.e. had carried out activities in the four week period ending with the reference week to seek paid employment,
• were available to take up work within two weeks from the end of the reference week.

Among unemployed persons were also include persons who did not seek work because they had already found a job and were waiting to start work during the period no longer than 3 months and they were available to take up this work.

Unemployed persons may be classified into one of the four categories:

• unemployed persons who lost a job, i.e. persons who left their last job not on their own initiative and immediately (i.e. within three months) started seeking a job,
• unemployed persons who resigned from work, i.e. persons who left work on their own initiative and immediately started seeking a job,
• unemployed persons who return to work after a break during which they were not seeking a job for at least 3 months,
• unemployed persons who have never worked and are seeking their first job.

Economically inactive population i.e. the population staying outside the labour force, are all persons aged 15-89 years who were not classified as employed or unemployed persons, i.e. persons who in the reference week:

• did not work, neither had a job nor were seeking work,
• did not work, were seeking a job, albeit not in an active way or were actively seeking work but were not ready (available) to start work within the two weeks following the reference week,
• neither worked nor were seeking work, as they had already found a job and were waiting to  start work during the period:
  • longer than 3 months,
  • up to 3 months, albeit they were not available for this work.

Activity rate total was calculated as the ratio of the economically active to the total number of the population aged 15-89 years.

Employment rate total was calculated as the ratio of the employed to the total number of the population aged 15-89 years.

Unemployment rate (by LFS) total was calculated as the ratio of the unemployed to the economically active population (aged 15-89 years).