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persons in employment are in full-time or part-time employment, persons in part-time employment are underemployed, unemployed persons are seeking full-time or part-time work, persons who are not economically active satisfy at least some of the criteria for classification among the unemployed, etc For persons aged 15 years or over I propose to develop a framework consistent with the international recommendations which would present the following labour force groupings on a regular basis In Employment Full-time Part-time but not underemployed Part-time and underemployed Unemployed Seeking full-time work Seeking part-time work Not Economically Active - Marginally attached to the labour force Lay-Offs not looking for work Discouraged workers Available and passively seeking full-time work Available and passively seeking part-time work - Other persons not economically active I will define these categories in terms of combinations of replies to the relevant LFS questions Persons at Work I examined nine population groups among those who indicated that they were at work for at least 1 hour in the reference week - i e those for whom code 1 192
was recorded at Q17 These categories, defined according to various reply combinations to subsequent questions, are listed in Table A Group 1 contains persons who worked full-time in the reference week either in a principal regular job or in an occasional or seasonal job This group poses no classification problem, being clearly in full-time employment Groups 2-9 relate to persons who worked in a part-time job in the reference week Persons in part-time employment have to be analysed in greater detail to identify those whose part-time employment is involuntary and who may, therefore, be underemployed To be classified as underemployed, such persons will be required to satisfy jobsearch and availability tests Group 2 contains persons who were not looking for work, who were clearly in part-time employment by choice and who cannot, therefore, be considered to be underemployed I would expect that this type of employment might be mainly characterised by married women Group 3 contains persons who were looking for full-time work and who indicated that they were available within two weeks Although according to the international recommendations such persons are in employment, they are also quite clearly underemployed Persons in Group 4 are similar to those in Group 3 with the exception that they are not immediately available for work because they cannot leave the present job immediately Presumably this group have certain minimum notice requirements attaching to leaving their present job and will be treated as underemployed Group 5 on the other hand give what I will describe as inactive reasons for not being available for full-time work Persons in this group are at work part-time by choice and, therefore, are not underemployed 193
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Page 3 and 4: Based on the subjective information
Page 5 and 6: eport "Counting the Labour Force" i
Page 7: I am convinced that a very sound th
Page 11 and 12: Groups 6-9 relate to persons in par
Page 13 and 14: Resolution However, it is necessary
Page 15 and 16: Persons who neither worked nor had
Page 17 and 18: Table C Persons who neither worked
Page 19 and 20: Comparison of Labour Force Estimate
Page 21 and 22: The sex differences in the measures
Page 23 and 24: Proposed ILO-based Framework compar
Page 25 and 26: Table G Females aged 15 years and o
Page 27 and 28: in transition such a composite meas
Page 29 and 30: Table 1A Males classified by Age Gr
Page 31 and 32: Table 1C Married/Separated Females
Page 33 and 34: Table 1E Total Persons classified b
Page 35 and 36: Table 2A( contd ) Persons, Males an
Page 37 and 38: Table 2B (contd ) Persons, Males an
Page 39 and 40: Table 3B Single/Widowed Females in
Page 41 and 42: Table 3D Total Females in the labou
Page 43 and 44: Table 4 Persons Marginally Attached
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Page 47 and 48: elieve then that we need to disting
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