The past years have been challenging for producers of Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS has been the most important source of short-term data on the labour market, but LFS users are more demanding and pushing to add more topics to the LFS at the same time looking for more granular data with high quality. From the other side a response rate in the LFS in many countries is decreasing which only confirms that it is more difficult to conduct the survey. The role of the session is to discuss a possibility of LFS improvement with the use of administrative data sources by answering to some questions:
- Is this possible to do?
- What are the pros and cons?
- Are there any limitations?
- Could it be a chance for some countries which bother with LFS data quality issues?
The session will start with a short introduction on LFS characteristics, ways of data collection applied by different countries and appearing quality issues. Then there will be three presentations of national statistical institutes concentrating on examples of administrative data use for LFS improvement. Finally the session will move to a discussion with the main three LFS data users representing international organisations – Eurostat, OECD and ILO - who will ask questions to the speakers and present their point of on the issue.