Website: Statistics: Labour market (including Labour Force Survey)

Labour market statistics measure the involvement of individuals, households and businesses in the labour market. They cover short-term and structural aspects of the labour market, both for the supply and the demand side, in monetary and non-monetary terms.

These aspects include:
- Employment and unemployment: the Labour Force Survey (LFS) [see below]
- Job vacancies
- Earnings: gross and net earnings, the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), gender pay gap, minimum wages
- Labour costs incurred by businesses: the quarterly Labour Cost Index (LCI), annual labour costs data, the Labour Cost Survey (LCS)
- Labour market policies (LMPs)
- Labour disputes

Statistics on the labour market are used to monitor the Europe 2020 strategy, the European Employment Strategy (EES) and respond to the requirements of economic and monetary policy in the European Union.

Additional data concerning the labour market can be found in other sections, notably in national accounts and regional statistics.

Employment and unemployment (LFS)
The EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) is the largest European household sample survey, providing quarterly and annual data on labour participation of people aged 15 and over and on persons outside the labour force. It covers residents in private households (excluding conscripts) according to labour status:
- employment
- unemployment
- inactivity

The data can be broken down according to multiple dimensions including age, sex, educational attainment, and distinctions between permanent/temporary and full-time/part-time employment.

The EU-LFS currently covers 33 (participating) countries, providing Eurostat with data from national labour force surveys: the 28 Member States of the European Union, three EFTA countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland), and two EU candidate countries, i.e. the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.

Website: Statistics: Employment and unemployment (LFS) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lfs

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