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Labour Market and Migration Statistics

• 1Contact
  • 1.1Contact organisation
    National Statistics Institute of Spain
    
  • 1.5Contact mail address

    Avenida de Manoteras 50-52 - 28050 Madrid

    
    
• 2Metadata update
  • 2.1Metadata last certified
    07/09/2023
  • 2.2Metadata last posted
    22/09/2023
  • 2.3Metadata last update
    07/09/2023
• 3Statistical presentation
  • 3.1Data description

    The Labour and Geographical Mobility Statistics (LGMS), research the relationship between the employability of persons and their availability to change residence, through the joint study of the labour characteristics and the time they have resided in the municipality.

    For this purpose, the LGMS includes specific variables derived from the Municipal Register Database of the INE (population base resulting from the coordination of the Municipal Registers) in the Economically Active Population Survey (EAPS) sample for the first quarter of each reference year. In this way, it is possible to relate the demographic and labour variables in the EAPS with the geographical mobility registered in the administrative source. Regarding the latter, only inter-municipality changes in residence will be considered, as changes in address within the same municipality are not relevant for labour purposes.

  • 3.2Classification system
    • Clasificaciones utilizadas

      The classification systems are the same systems as those used in the EAPS. In particular:

      
      
      

      Branch of economic activity: The data is coded to 3 digits (272 groups) of the 2009 National Classification of Economic Activities, CNAE-09.

      
      
      

      Occupation: Since 2011, the data is coded to 3 digits of the 2011 National Classification of Occupations, NCO-2011. For the year 2010, the occupations are classified according to NCO-1994.

      
      
      

      Professional status: The data is coded for the following 7 groups: employers, self-employed workers, cooperative members, family aids, wage-earners (private or public sector), and others. There is correspondence to the International Classification by Status in Employment (ICSE) of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

      
      
      

      Education (highest level of studies): Since 2014, the data is coded into 23 categories for the level of education – to 2 digits of the 2014 National Classification of Education, NCE-2014. For the previous years, the levels of studies are classified according to NCE-2000.

      
      
      

      Education or training received during the four previous weeks: Since 2014, the data is coded into 25 categories for the level of education – to 2 digits of the 2014 National Classification of Education- NCE-2014. For the previous years, the education or training received is classified according to NCE-2000.

  • 3.3Sector coverage

    All categories of CNAE, NCO and NCE are covered.

  • 3.4Statistical concepts and definitions
    • Active population or active persons
      The active population comprises employed and unemployed persons during the reference week.
    • Employees
      Employees are all those persons aged over 16 years old who, during the reference week were employed by others, wage-earners, or performed freelance work pursuant, freelance workers.
    • Employment
      A set of tasks and duties performed, or meant to be performed, by a person, in her or his job post.
    • Freelance workers
      Have worked during the reference week for at least one hour in exchange for personal gain or family earnings or have had a job but not working due to being temporarily absent from it during the reference week due to illness, an accident, holidays, public holidays, bad weather or other reasons involving there continuing to exist a strong link between the person and his or her company.
      Family assistance is included in this category.
    • Global activity rate
      Global activity rate: This is the quotient between the total number of active persons and the total population. Calculated for both sexes and for each sex separately.
    • Inactive population or inactive persons
      The economically inactive population comprises all persons 16 years old and older who do not classify as employed, unemployed or population counted separately during the reference week.
    • Main employment
      If a person simultaneously maintains more than one employment relationship during the reference week, only one of them will be considered the main employment, as the other such relationship(s) shall be considered secondary employment. The interviewee shall select the main employment according to her or his judgement. In case of doubt, the person shall opt for that on which s/he regularly spends the most working hours, or which provides her/him the greatest income or benefit.
    • Professional Status
      The definition is based on the ILO resolution regarding the International Classification of the Employment Situation (15th CISE, 1993). The two essential dimensions for the concept of professional situation are economic risk and authority.
      The basic distinction is the one that exists between wage earners and freelance workers. Wage earners are all workers whose type of work is defined as paid employment: work whereby the holders have implicit or explicit employment contracts (verbal or in writing), for which they receive basic payment that does not depend directly on the income of the unit for which they work (this unit may be a corporation, a non-profit organisation, a government unit or a household). Some or all instruments, capital goods, information systems and/or premises used by the holders belong to third parties, and the holders may work under the direct supervision of or in accordance with the strict directives established by the owner or persons employed by the latter. (Persons with ¿paid employment¿ are usually paid with salaries or wages, but may also be paid by means of commissions on sales, efficiency payments, premiums or payments in kind such as food, lodgings or training).
      Freelance work is that employment whereby payment depends directly on profits (or on the potential to make profit) deriving from goods and services produced (in these jobs it is regarded that self-consumtion forms part of profits). Freelance workers make operational decisions that affect the company, or delegate those decisions, but retain responsibility for the well-being of the company. (In this context, the company includes the operations of a single person.)
      Wage earners with a determined duration job/contract are those employees whose main work will end after a pre-termined period of time has elapsed, or after a period of time which is unknown from the outset, but defined by means of objective criteria, such as the completion of a task or the end of the period of absence of the worker who is being temporarily replaced.
    • Specific activity rate
      The specific activity rate for a specific age interval is the quotient between the number of active persons in that age range and the population corresponding to said interval. Ti (activity) = Ai/ Pi, i <= 16 [i,i + k) age interval with amplitude k Ti= specific activity rate for interval [i,i + k) Ai= number of active persons in the interval [i,i + k) Pi=population in the interval [i,i + k) It is generally calculated for both sexes and for each separately. Intervals are usually every fifteen or every ten days.
    • Specific unemployment rate
      The specific unemployment rate for a specific age interval is the quotient between unemployed persons aged between the years established in the interval and the active population in said interval. Ti(unemployment) = Di/ Ai, i <= 16 [i, i+k) age interval with amplitude k Ti= specific unemployment rate for interval [i,i + k) Di= number of unemployed in the interval [i,i + k) Ai= number of active persons in the interval [i,i + k) Generally calculated for both sexes and for each sex separately. Intervals are usually every fifteen or every ten days.
    • Type of working day
      The typical weekly working day at work may be full time or part time.
      
      The distinction is based on the interviewee's opinion, though it must be taken into account that part-time work can never exceed 35 hours weekly, and full-time work cannot be under to 30 hours weekly, and full-time work must be equal to or over 30 regular hours each week.
    • Unemployed persons
      All those persons aged over 16 years old who, during the reference week were:
      
      a) out of work, in other words, they had no paid employment or freelance work,
      
      b) available for work, in other words, available to carry out a job as an employee or freelance work within the two weeks following the reference week,
      
      c) actively jobseeking during the month prior to the Sunday of the reference week.
      
      Persons are also considered unemployed when they are out of work but are about to start a new job within the three months subsequent to the reference week and are currently available for work. Therefore in this case it will not be necessary to demand active jobseeking as a necessary condition for being unemployed.
      
      The search methods considered active are to be found listed in the European Commission Regulation 1897/2000.
    • Unemployment rate
      The unemployment rate is the quotient between the number of unemployed persons and the number of active persons. Calculated for both sexes and for each sex separately.
    • Wage-earners or freelance workers
      Have worked during the reference week for at least one hour in exchange for a salary or wage, in cash or in kind or have had a job but have not not worked due to being temporally absent from work during the reference week. In this case, in order ot regard the person as employed, it is necessary to be closely linked with his or her employment, and for the total period absent to be less than or equal to three months or, where this is greater, for the percentage of the wage received to be 50% or more.
  • 3.5Statistical unit

    Persons who are 16 years of age or over and resident in Spanish main family dwellings.

  • 3.6Statistical population

    All persons who live in a private dwelling are included. Persons who live in a group household are included if they have a link with a private household.

    Foreign nationals are included if they are going to live in Spain for over a year (except persons in the military or foreign diplomats).

    For further information, see the standardized EAPS methodological report.

  • 3.7Reference area

    As per the survey, all statistical units located within the territory of the Spanish state, are object of research.

  • 3.8Time coverage

    The series of  LGMS is published for the first quarter of that same year will be published annually.

  • 3.9Base period

    The first reference period of the published data is the year 2010.

• 4Unit of measure
  • 4.1Unit of measure
• 5Reference period
  • 5.1Reference period

    The information of the EAPS sample is obtained from the first quarter of each calendar year. Therefore all variables, being the labour variables of the survey itself as well as those that refer to geographical mobility, refer to the reference week of the EAPS survey within the first quarter of that year.

    Data referred to the period: Anual A: 2023

• 6Institutional mandate
  • 6.1Legal acts and other agreements

    The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2021-2024, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of 15  December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2021-2024. (Statistics of the State Administration).

    
    

    The LGMS is included in the National Statistical Plan in force within the sector or topic: "Labour market and salaries", with program no. 6413 and under the initial name "Labour Market Statistics and Migration". Furthermore, the LGMS appears in the Annual Program in force with the same name and program no.

  • 6.2Data sharing
    The exchanges of information needed to elaborate statistics between the INE and the rest of the State statistical offices (Ministerial Departments, independent bodies and administrative bodies depending on the State General Administration), or between these offices and the Autonomic statistical offices, are regulated in the LFEP (Law of the Public Statistic Function). This law also regulates the mechanisms of statistical coordination, and concludes cooperation agreements between the different offices when necessary.
    

    The information regarding demographic and labour statistics is compiled by the INE via the Economically Active Population Survey (EAPS), and the geographic mobility data is obtained based on the administrative registers coming from the INE Municipal Register Database, combined with the information of the EAPS.

• 7Confidentiality
  • 7.1Confidentiality - policy

    The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society

    
    
  • 7.2Confidentiality - data treatment
    INE provides information on the protection of confidentiality at all stages of the statistical process: INE questionnaires for the operations in the national statistical plan include a legal clause protecting data under statistical confidentiality. Notices prior to data collection announcing a statistical operation notify respondents that data are subject to statistical confidentiality at all stages. For data processing, INE employees have available the INE data protection handbook, which specifies the steps that should be taken at each stage of processing to ensure reporting units' individual data are protected. The microdata files provided to users are anonymised.
    

    The direct identification data is not saved along with the statistical information.

    The aggregate information complies with the confidentiality restrictions.

• 8Release policy
  • 8.1Release calendar

    The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.

    
    
  • 8.2Release calendar access

    The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)

    
    
  • 8.3User access

    The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice

    
    
• 9Frequency of dissemination
  • 9.1Frequency of dissemination

    These statistics are disseminated annually.

• 10Accessibility and clarity
  • 10.1News release

    The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web

    
    
  • 10.2Publications

    The information is disseminated in a press release which includes the main data.
    The reference of said press release may be found in: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176909&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735976597

  • 10.3On-line database

    INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.

    
    

    INEbase tables may be accessed in the section Society/Labour Market, via the following the link: https://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/en/index.htm?padre=1466 

  • 10.4Micro-data access
    A lot of statistical operations disseminate public domain anonymized files, available free of charge for downloading in the INE website Microdata Section
    

    Customised anonymous microdata files may be requested in the INE Information Area under the established conditions of use.

  • 10.5Other

    It is possible to request customised information from the INE Information Area. Limitations on confidentiality or accuracy will be taken into account when processing said requests.

  • 10.6Documentation on methodology

    A detailed methodological description is available in the following link: https://www.ine.es/metodologia/t22/t2230209.pdf

  • 10.7Quality documentation

    Sections 10.6 to 17.2 in this document compile information on quality addressed to the users of this operation.

• 11Quality management
  • 11.1Quality assurance

    Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.

    
    

    The compilation process of these statistics have established controls so as to detect and correct the errors that will guarantee their quality. In this sense, the coherence between the data received from the INE Municipal Register Database is filtered with the data obtained directly from EAPS respondents. Data filtering and validation is automatic so that possible processing errors are not introduced. Internationally accepted "record linkage" techniques are used so that the register link between databases provides a guarantee in terms of search and correct identification of persons.

  • 11.2Quality assessment

    From the statistical production point of view, LGMS is efficient in terms of economic and human resources since it uses the compilation process of the EAPS in its field work stage as well as its computer filtering and processing of the demographic and labour variables. The EAPS harmonised methodology, allows reliable comparisons and gives an extremely valuable, linked and integrated measure on the labour market, including socio-demographic information (educational level, type of household) that no other statistical source provides with such conceptual detail. For further information, see the standardized EAPS methodological report.

    The supplementary specific information on changes of residence is obtained from the "Continuous Register" or the "INE Municipal Register Database". The Municipal Register Database has an excellent updating status, which allows an elevated linking rate between the sample of persons 16 years of age or older in the EAPS and the Municipal Register Database.

    Therefore, the geographical mobility variables obtained via the statistical processing of the data in the Municipal Register offer more contents with greater accuracy than the data that would be obtained by directly asking respondents.

• 12Relevance
  • 12.1User needs

    Among the users of the survey, the following are worth mentioning:

    *) Ministries (Economy, Employment, Education, etc.) and other public organisations (Bank of Spain., Economic and Social Council, observatories, etc.)

    *) Territorial administrations (Autonomous Communities, Provincial Councils, City Councils)

    *) Researchers and academic world

    *) Non-profit companies and institutions (Company research services, foundations, associations, etc.), trade unions and employers' organisations.

    *) Press and specialised media

    *) Individuals

    Each one of these users have different needs according to the purpose and use they will make of the information they require.

  • 12.2User satisfaction

    The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013,  2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...

    On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click  next link)

     

    
    

    There is no specific EAPS user satisfaction survey for the LGMS, however, the User Satisfaction Survey (USS) does indicate the satisfaction level of the labour market user group.

    Data requests of the LGMS are treated occasionally and are practically completely satisfied in time and shape, providing the sample allows the requested breakdowns.

  • 12.3Completeness

    These statistics provide all the information required by the National Statistical Plan, therefore the "rate of available compulsory results" is 100%.

• 13Accuracy and reliability
  • 13.1Overall accuracy

    The INE publishes the reports that allow assessing the users' problems associated with the errors that occur during the statistical process, such as field work incidences, the response rate, the evaluation of the interviewers, the results of the evaluation survey, etc.

    For further information regarding accuracy in the EAPS see report “Quality assessment of the EAPS”. Usually due to the intrinsic characteristics of the EAPS, there is less response regarding the groups that are most difficult to find in a permanent dwelling. Hence, for example, the sample of elderly persons is overrepresented in the sample; there is a higher response of persons with Spanish nationality than those of a foreign nationality, etc. The application of calibration techniques since 2005 has solved this problem greatly.

    The current updating status of the INE municipal register is considered to be excellent. On the other hand, the last available version of the municipal register database will always be used. These facts cause a very high linking rate between the sample of persons 16 years of age or over in the EAPS and the Municipal Register Database.

  • 13.2Sampling error

    The sampling errors of the Labor and Geographical Mobility Statistic are those obtained in the LFS, since, for its preparation, only the data from that survey is used.

    The calculation of variation coefficients of the EAPS main variables is carried out each time the survey is compiled and are disseminated in its publication and in subsequent quality reports. For further details, visit sampling errors  in the EAPS website.

    Mobility has low incidence, therefore the EAPS sample that changes from one year to the other in the municipality of residence is low. For this reason, the results for the national group and more aggregated data are basically obtained for the Autonomous Communities insomuch as it is allowed by statistical secrecy and the variation coefficient of the estimators.

    In the results tables, absolute values in thousands of persons and less than 5.0 should be taken with caution, as they may be affected by high sample errors.

  • 13.3Non-sampling error
    In the elaboration of this statistic, a control is made of the errors unrelated to the sampling that come from different sources:

    - the elaboration errors of the EAPS

    - errors in the assignment of the identifier of each person surveyed in the EAPS

    - errors in the population register information

     

    Non-sampling errors are controlled in the entire statistical process. Specifically, the non-response rate of this statistic coincides with that obtained in the preparation of the EAPS and can be consulted in “EAPS quality assessment” report for the non-response rate in the EAPS.

    Furthermore, there is specific information on the linking rate between EAPS respondents over 16 years of age and the Municipal Register Database. This linking rate makes up for approximately 99.4% of the total EAPS sample of persons 16 years of age or over.

• 14Timeliness and punctuality
  • 14.1Timeliness

    The data is published in the month of October after the reference quarter (the first quarter of each year). Therefore the time elapsed from the termination of the reference period to the publication of the data is 6 months (t+6 months).

  • 14.2Punctuality

    LGMS results are published in accordance with the short-term statistics publication calendar of the INE.

    Each publication has been made public on the date announced in the publication calendar.

• 15Coherence and Comparability
  • 15.1Comparability - geographical

    The use of definitions from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the strict application of definitions and concepts of the European Union Labour Force Survey, which is collected in the regulations, allows comparing the results of these statistics with those of similar statistics in other countries.

  • 15.2Comparability - over time

    The continuity of the methodology applied since the implementation of the survey, allows its comparability in time since 2010, which is the initial period of the operation. It must however be taken into account that in 2011 there was a logical break in the series, which is a consequence of the entry into force of the New National Classification of Occupations (NCO-2011). Also in 2014 the new National Classification of Education, NCE-2014 is incorporated. 

    However - since the results are aggregated for large groups - in its entirety thereof they are comparable since the beginning of the series in 2010.

    (CC1=8)

  • 15.3Coherence - cross domain

    LGMS estimates are coherent with the data on labour and geographical mobility of wage earners, which are obtained from the use of tax sources, once the difference between both sources are taken into account. LGMS estimates usually offer a greater amount of wage earners with a period of residence lower than one year. These differences are due to the fact that the LGMS includes all residential variations among different municipalities and not only residential variations among municipalities from different Autonomous Communities. Furthermore, it must be taken into consideration that the LGMS also includes Pais Vasco and the Comunidad Foral de Navarra, which are not included when using the tax data of the "common fiscal territory".

    On the other hand, the data focuses on the Spanish population resident in family dwellings and this data grouped according to their employment status (employed or unemployed persons) compared with the migration statistics figures, cover all the population resident in national territory.

  • 15.4Coherence - internal

    Internal coherence is an essential factor in planning the EAPS as well as in its compilation. Given the LGMS is compiled based on EAPS data, it automatically adopts the degree of coherence between the demographic and labour variables of this survey. For further information in this regard, see the EAPS standardized methodological report.

    Coherence among the variables derived from the Municipal Register Database and the demographic variables of the EAPS regarding the place of birth and the time of residence in Spain, are contrasted in all stages of the statistical process.

• 16Cost and burden
  • 16.1Cost and burden

    In the 2023 Annual Program, the estimate of the necessary budget appropriation to finance this statistical operation is 5.33 thousand euros.

    This operation is a model of use of low cost administrative sources that uses efficient methods and provides periodical figures on an aspect that is object of social and labour policies...

• 17Data revision
  • 17.1Data revision - policy

    The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).

    This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow:  routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.

    
    

    The published information is final and data is not revised.

  • 17.2Data revision - practice

    The published information is final and therefore data is not revised.

• 18Statistical processing
  • 18.1Source data

    This statistical operation uses the information derived from the integration of statistical data provided by the EAPS with the administrative data registered in the INE Municipal Register Database.

  • 18.2Frequency of data collection

    The frequency of data collection is annual.

    Demographic and labour information coming from the EAPS is collected the month after the first reference quarter. Later, in that same year, the supplementary data for the compilation of the geographic mobility variables of LGMs could be consulted in the INE Municipal Register Database.

  • 18.3Data collection

    It is a statistical operation that crosses the EAPS with administrative registers, therefore there is no additional collection associated with the variables of the LGMS. The incorporation of specific variables of these statistics is carried out by consulting the Municipal Register Database according to what is described in section 18.2 and 18.5.

  • 18.4Data validation

    Demographic and labour data coming from the EAPS undergo a validation procedure that guarantees the completeness, correctness and coherence of information. A filtering system is used in the EAPS for data entry in which errors or inconsistencies are detected. Afterwards, a second filtering process is applied to each collection centre and lastly, a centralised filtering is carried out in which the errors detected in the main variables are corrected manually and the rest of variables are filtered automatically.

    Regarding the validation of the crossings for the incorporation of data on geographic mobility, the following actions are carried out:

    *) Exhaustive filtering of the identification link of persons 16 years of age or over included the EAPS sample; comparing the personal data and data regarding residence that is registered in the INE Municipal Register Database, with the data obtained from the EAPS sample.

    *) Comparison of coherence between the information on geographical mobility obtained from the consultation of the Municipal Register Database and the EAPS sample.

  • 18.5Data compilation

    The data compilation process is carried out in the following stages:

    1. The INE Municipal Register Database monthly compiles all registers and delistings of persons resident in the national territory (register variations)

    2. Once the EAPS interviews are performed in the first quarter of the corresponding year, there is an initial linking between the personal data of the survey respondents over 16 years of age in the EAPS and the INE Municipal Register Database. Among other data, this allows obtaining the national identification card number or the number of the document that substitutes the national identification card for foreign nationals and is included in the INE database.

    3. Later, using the identification numbers previously obtained, the INE Municipal Register Database is consulted again so as to obtain the last residential variation prior to the reference week of the EAPS survey. The relevant data regarding this consultation is the following:

    *)Current municipality of registration

    *)Date of registration in current municipality

    *) Previous municipality or country of registration

    *)Municipality or country of birth

    4. The following supplementary variables on geographical mobility are obtained from the combination of the administrative variables obtained from the use of the INE Municipal Register Database along with the demographic variables of the EAPS:

    *) Time (in years) residing in the current municipality

    *) Location of the previous municipality of residence regarding the current one

    *) Relationship between the previous type of environment and the current one

    *) Location of the municipality of birth regarding the current one

    Regarding the previous municipality or country of origin, there are occasions in which there is no information in the INE Municipal Register Database (registers by omission) . In these cases, the municipality or country of birth is indicated as the place of origin.

  • 18.6Adjustment

    There are no seasonal adjustments as it is a structural survey.

    There are no measurement adjustments for elevation factors calculated for the EAPS because the object of study is not to obtain the total population but to obtain values referring to specific labour groups (basically employed and unemployed persons)

• 19Comment
  • 19.1Comment

    For those interested parties, there is information regarding the Economically Active Population Survey (EAPS) available in:

    https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176918&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735976595