Employment and unemployment (provisional)

In April 2021 the number of both employed and unemployed persons increased, while a decline was recorded for inactive people. On a monthly basis, the […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

In March 2021 the number of employed persons increased, while a decline was recorded for both inactive and unemployed people. On a monthly basis, the […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

From 1 January 2021, the new Labour Force survey started, which transposes Regulation (EU) 2019/1700. As reported in detail in the methodological note, the time […]

Labour market

In the fourth quarter of 2020, labour market dynamics are still affected by measures to contain health emergency. The labour input, as measured by hours […]

Labour Force 2021: what’s new in the survey

The year 2021 opens with important news for the Labour Force Survey, which has provided official estimates of employed and unemployed and other key information […]

What changes in the new survey

The new survey adopts the updates introduced by the European Regulation, which provides new criteria for identifying the household and the employed person. To comply […]

General Info

The labour force survey is a sample survey conducted by interviewing households.  Its main goal is to estimate the aggregates of labour supply: employed and […]

Questionnaire

The questionnaire is the survey tool used to collect information on all the people in the sample. The questions in the questionnaire are closely studied […]

For respondents

For Istat it is important that households know properly the surveys that the Institute carries out and their purpose. This is because the data collected […]

Dissemination Labour Force Survey

Following the new European legislation (EU Regulation 2019/1700), which introduces methodological and organizational innovations in the Labour Force Survey, dissemination activities will undergo some changes. […]