Abstract

A proxy labour force indicator has been developed for the work domain of the Longitudinal Social Data Development Program (LSDDP) using microdata integration. The categories are defined in the same way as for the Labour Force Survey (LFS),
namely: Employed (Category A), Unemployed (category B) or Out of Labour Force (category C). The purpose of this work is not to replace or compete with the LFS estimates, but to be able to derive a monthly proxy employment status (A,B,C) for each individual in the LSDDP population universe from the resulting algorithm. The microdata linkage required was performed using anonymized linkage keys and that quality assessments (MSE, classification error) have been conducted and compared to results from the LFS and the Census. It is anticipated that employment statistics could be improved for different subdomains of interest (e.g. age, sex/gender,
census geography, economic region) in using small area estimation technique. We will discuss the results and limitations of this work.