Enquiries, Sources – 03 - Labour Market Accounts (LMA)Overview
| Short description | Labour Market Accounts (LMA) help us understand labour market dynamics. These statistics provide information regarding the transition from employment, unemployment and inactivity. In this sense, the LMA serve as a complement to Employment Statistics (ES) and Unemployment Statistics (based on ILO-definition). The LMA also show migration flows as well as births and deaths. They create a link between labour market statistics and population statistics. LMA data have been available since 1991. |
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| Responsible agency | Swiss Federal Statistical Office |
| Responsible service | Labour Force |
| Responsible person and information | Silvia Perrenoud, 032 713 66 32, silvia.perrenoud@bfs.admin.ch |
| Conducted by | Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) |
| Legal basis | Art. 10 of Swiss Federal Law of 9 October 1992 on public statistics |
| Type of enquiry | Summary statistics. Labour Market Accounts (LMA) are compiled from various sources, including Population Statistics (ESPOP, available in French & German), the Central Information Service on Migration (CISM) and Vital Statistics (VITSTAT). Data on labour market status are based on both Employment Statistics (ES) and Unemployment Statistics (ILO- based). Panel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) provide information regarding the transition from employment, unemployment and inactivity. |
| Statistical basis and units of enquiry | Persons in employment according to domestic concept. Unemployed and economically inactive persons within the resident population. |
| Features registered |
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| Degree of regionalisation | Switzerland |
| Date survey conducted | Calendar year |
| Periodicity | Yearly |
| Available since | 1991 |
| Statistical quality of data | Margin of error cannot be estimated because LMA are compiled from various sources. However, published tables are not as detailed since one survey (SLFS) was used as the main source for the LMA. |
| Revision | December 2002 (retrospective adjustment since 1991) |
Last updated: 23.10.2009