Labour force; history 1970-2006

The data in this table are based on the Labour Force Survey (EBB). The EBB is an investigation carried out by CBS to gather information on the relationship between people and the labour market. The characteristics of individuals are associated with their current or future position on the labour market. This table contains data from 1970 according to the current definition (1991) of the working population aged 15 to 65. The labour force it consists of the employed and unemployed labour force. According to the 1991 definition belongs to the working population of all people who work 12 hours or more per week. To the unemployed the labour force is counted as those who do not or less than 12 working hours per week and actively seeking employment of at least twelve hours a week. Since 1987, data on the labour force have been based on the EBB. The data on the labour force according to the new definition in the years before 1987 are based on the Labour Force Counts of 1981, 1983 and 1985, the time series recorded unemployment according to the definition 1991, and the time series of labour force according to the past definitions used. For a detailed description of the method used to arrive at a neat time series, see "Composition recorded unemployment rates and time series", H.B.A. Bierings and C.M. Kragt, in: Survey of labour force 1994, CBS. Due to a new weighing method of the EBB, all EBB tables are stopped and moved to the archive. Instead of being new tables created. In these new tables are the figures with a new weighing method corrected until 2001. Since 2001, it is also possible for a limited set of variables quarterly figures to publish. The years for 2001 have not been corrected and it concerns the previously published figures. An extensive description of the new weighing method of the EBB can be found on the theme page. Data available from: 1970 Frequency: discontinued Status of the figures Figures based on the EBB are always final. When are new figures coming? Stop it.