Measuring Labour Force Participation in Denmark

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Measuring Labour Force Participation in Denmark

• Annemette Lindhardt Olsen
• Statistics Denmark

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Contents

• The statistical system
• Analyses on labour market participation in
  Denmark
• Dissemination
• Future

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The statistical information system
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Labour force 1958-2007
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Labour market rate by age. 1950 and 2007
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Share of employees in the public sector
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Employed aged 30-54 years by gender and hours
worked. 1997-2007

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Dissemination

• www.StatBank
• Thematic publications
• Database on gender-segregated statistics
• De-identified microdata for researchers
• Specially designed reports for ministries, labour
  market organizations, and other interested
  parties
• Gender-segregated earnings statistics for
  companies

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Pros and cons of register-based labour market
statistics

• Data on whole resident population
• Administrative registers give high quality and
  regularity
• Longitudinal data

• Need for quicker data
• Hours worked difficult to measure
• Gender pay-gap difficult to measure
• Informal sector can not be measured

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But in the near future

• E-Income - new administrative data
• monthly data from employers
• hours worked
• number of jobs
• place of work