| Table of contents |
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Highlights of the results ................................................................................................................................. 1
3. Employment ................................................................................................................................................... 2
3.1 Conditions of employment for employees ................................................................................................... 6
4. Unemployment and Not in employment, education or training (NEET)......................................................... 6
5. Summary of labour market measures at a glance, Q4: 2018........................................................................ 9
6. Other labour market trends.......................................................................................................................... 10
6.1 Year-on-year changes ............................................................................................................................... 10
6.2 Trends in unemployment rate .................................................................................................................... 11
7. Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) and the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) ............................. 12
8. Technical notes............................................................................................................................................ 14
8.1 Response details ....................................................................................................................................... 14
8.2 Survey requirements and design ............................................................................................................... 14
8.3 Sample rotation.......................................................................................................................................... 15
8.4 Weighting ................................................................................................................................................... 15
8.5 Non-response adjustment.......................................................................................................................... 15
8.6 Final survey weights .................................................................................................................................. 15
8.7 Estimation .................................................................................................................................................. 15
8.8 Reliability of the survey estimates ............................................................................................................. 16
9. Definitions .................................................................................................................................................... 16 |
