This Mikrozensus special survey from June 1992 poses various questions on the topic employment an thereby gathers information which to some extent is also gathered in the Mikrozensus basic program which has been complemented with various special programs. This time the aim of the special program is more than just gaining additional information on fields such as career, job change, job seeking, etc. The aims of this survey are connected with international requirements. Austria’s efforts to become closer with the European Community (EC) and a member in the course of the 90s are probably known. These are connected with new requirements of the statistical program. All EC member states for instance have to conduct an extensive annual labour force survey. Therefore, this is a test to find out how far it is possible to conduct such a survey in Austria and it thereby also serves as a test-run for future EC-conform labour force surveys. In consequence of this connection with international requirements there is also a another change which concerns the census of employed persons. Up until now, only people who worked more 12 regular Working Time per week were regarded as employed. This has been largely substituted with the so called Labour-Force-Concept in international population census samples. According to this concept every person who works at least one hour in the reference week is viewed as employed. All international surveys and calculations which serve the purpose of international comparability support this Labour-Force-Concept. Therefore, it is also used in this special program.

Probability: Stratified: Disproportional

Face-to-face interview