The Impact of the New Labour Force Survey on the Employed Classification.

Regulation n. 577/1998 of the European Council gives the rules to be used by the Community countries to design and conduct the Labour Force Survey (LFS). In order to apply this regulation the Italian LFS has been completely revised regarding several aspects of the survey such as frequency, definitions, questionnaire, survey design, interviewers network. All these changes caused a break in the time series of the main labour force estimates. The aim of this work is to describe and evaluate these differences and their impact on the employed classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]