Italian Labour Force Survey – Annual file (2020)

Version:
1.0

Changelog (Archive version):

1.0 - 2021-05-11
* first import routine of the study
* creation of new variables (distributed only to the members) concerning the qualification (SG25) and the type of course attended (H3) based on the information provided by the source. For more information see the attached documentation
* compared to the information provided by the source, some variables (RELPARM, AMATRIM, NN2M, RPN2M, TN2M) were renamed to make them equal to those already present in the previous waves of the study. For more information see the attached documentation
* in the data for the first quarter the G9 variable ("Unemployment benefit or citizenship income or mobility allowance") has been replaced with the SUSDIS variable, present in subsequent quarters

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Release:
2021-03-25

Changelog (Source release):

1.0 - 2021-03-25
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Data Kind:
individual data

Time Dimensions:
longitudinal (panel)

Series Name:
RFL - Labour Force Survey

Questionnaire:

other documentation

The Italian Labour Force Survey is the main source of statistical information on the Italian labor market. The information gathered from the population constitutes the basis on which official estimations of employment and unemployment are calculated, as well as information on the main job’s issues – occupation, sector of economic activity, hours worked, contracts’ type and duration, training.

The survey data are used to analyze a number of individual, family and social factors too, such as the increasing labor mobility, changing professions, the growth in female participation, etc.., which determine the difference in labor participation of the population.

This database is the result of the union of the four quarterly datasets for the year 2020. In this way, it is possible to calculate the annual estimations at the national, macro-regional and regional levels.

The documentation available on this page refers to the survey conducted in the last quarter.

For more information, please refer to the pages of the individual quarterly surveys of 2020:

Italian Labour Force Survey – January (2020)
Italian Labour Force Survey – April (2020)
Italian Labour Force Survey – July (2020)
Italian Labour Force Survey – October (2020)

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Keywords: employment, labour, unemployment

Topic Classification:

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT - employment

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT - in-job training

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT - unemployment

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT - working conditions

Nations: Italy

Geographical Unit: metropolitan municipality

Analysis Unit: individual, family

Universe: whole national population

Sample Procedure: 62,678 households, 390,438 individuals. Two-stage stratified random sample

Weight: Weight used. Please read the documentation for any details

Collection Mode: Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)

Collection Size: UniData supplies: 1 dataset in SPSS (members only) or CSV (other users) format; 1 questionnaire in PDF format (last quarter - ita); 1 methodological notes in PDF format (last quarter - ita); 1 codebook in PDF format (ita); 1 PDF file with UniData's archive notes (ita); 1 ZIP file including the documentation from the source (codes for ATECO2007, CP2011, ISCED2011, ISCO08 classifications, sampling error estimations at the national, macro-regional and regional levels) (6 file)

Documentation:

Methodological Notes (pdf):
Codebook (pdf):
Data Archive Notes (pdf):
Documentation (zip):
DDI Documentation:

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Citation:
Istat. (2020) Italian Labour Force Survey – Annual file. UniData - Bicocca Data Archive, Milan. Study Number SN224. Data file version 1.0

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