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Labour Force Survey

United States

In 1940, as a part of the New Deal policy, the Works Progress Administration started the Monthly Report of Unemployment, a national sample survey of households. In 1942, it was transferred to the Census Bureau with the new name of the Monthly Report on the Labor Force. It further became the Current Population Survey in 1948 with a wider scope of demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the population. While the Census Bureau has continued to collect the data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been in charge of analysis and publicationof the labour force data from the Survey since 1952.

Main article: Current Population Survey

Japan

The Statistics Bureau of Japan has conducted the Labour Force Survey (労働力調査, Rōdōryoku Chōsa) every month since September 1946, which was modeled after the United States' Monthly Report of the Labor Force. Its questionnaire was modified in May 1949 to meet the Resolution by the 6th International Conference of Labour Statisticians of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1947. After some additional changes in sampling, questionnaires, and survey methods, the main framework of the LFS was almost finalized by 1967 and has offered the long-term time-series data since then. It also offers data from extra surveys that have been published as "Detailed Tabulation" containing supplemental findings in addition to the LFS main results.

France

In 1950, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) started the Employment Survey as an annual survey. It has been conducted every week since 2003, using the name of the Employment, Unemployment and Inactivity Survey, also known as the Continuous Employment Survey. It is the only French source for the data about economic activity, employment, and unemployment as defined by the guidelines of International Labour Office and Eurostat. In 2021, the INSEE introduced the new questionnaire in line with the new European regulation and the new protocol with possibility of use of the Internet for re-interviewing.

South Korea

Statistics Korea has conducted the Economically Active Population Survey since 1962. It became a monthly survey in 1982. Additional surveys have also been conducted.

Spain

The National Institute of Statistics (INE) has conducted the Economically Active Population Survey since 1964. It was on a quarterly basis during 1964–1968, twice a year during 1969–1974, quarterly during 1975–1998, and "continuous" (weekly) in 1999 onward. Upon Spain's incorporation into the European Communities in 1986, the questionnaire was modified in accordance with the recommendations by the the 13th International Conference of Labour Statisticians of the ILO (1982) as well as the European Community Labour Force Survey. It recently experienced major methodological changes in 2002 (new definition of unemployment), in 2005 (new questionnaire and computer-assisted telephone survey method), and in 2021 (to adapt the new European regulations 2019). The Survey methods also follow the ILO resolutions of 2013 and 2018.

Switzerland

The Federal Statistical Office started the Swiss Labour Force Survey in 1991 as an annual survey. The Survey data is comparable with OECD and EU LFS data. Since 2010, it has been conducted on a continuous basis.

Main article: Swiss Labour Force Survey