Estimating monthly labour force figures during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Official monthly statistics about the Dutch labour force are based on the Dutch Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS is a continuously conducted survey that is designed as a rotating panel design. Data collection among selected households is based on a mixed-mode design that uses web interviewing, telephone interviewing and face-to-face interviewing. Monthly estimates about the labour force are obtained with a structural time series model. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face interviewing stopped. It was anticipated that this would have a systematic effect on the outcomes of the LFS and that the lockdown at the same time affected the real monthly labour force figures. The lockdown indeed marked a sharp turning point in the evolution of the series of the monthly labour force figures and

SUBMITTER: van den Brakel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348434 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature