# L_2020370EN.01000101.xml

| 6.11.2020 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 370/1 |
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6.11.2020

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 370/1

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COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2020/1640

of 12 August 2020

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (1), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the labour force domain. |
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(1)

To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the labour force domain.

| (2) | The Commission should establish the number and title of the variables on the ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain. |
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(2)

The Commission should establish the number and title of the variables on the ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain.

| (3) | The number of variables to be collected should not exceed by more than 5 % the number of variables collected for the labour force domain at the time when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force, |
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(3)

The number of variables to be collected should not exceed by more than 5 % the number of variables collected for the labour force domain at the time when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The number and the titles of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and of the eight-yearly variables for ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 August 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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  OJ L 261I, 14.10.2019, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Number and title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain

| Topic | Detailed topic | Variable identifier | Variable name |
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| 03c. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 relating to an ad hoc subject) | Job skills | DIGITAL | Time spent on working on digital devices in main or last job |
| READING | Time spent on reading work-related manuals and technical documents in main or last job |
| CALCULATE | Time spent on doing relatively complex calculations in main or last job |
| PHYSICAL | Time spent on doing hard physical work in main or last job |
| DEXTERITY | Time spent on tasks involving finger dexterity in main or last job |
| COMMINT | Time spent on interacting with people from the same enterprise or organisation in main or last job |
| COMMEXT | Time spent on interacting with people from outside the enterprise or organisation in main or last job |
| GUIDANCE | Time spent on advising, training or teaching other people in main or last job |
| JOBAUTON | Degree of autonomy on tasks in main or last job |
| REPETITIVE | Repetitiveness of tasks in main or last job |
| PROCEDURE | Tasks precisely described by strict procedures in main or last job |
| 03d. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 eight-yearly) | Pension and labour market participation | PENSTYP1 | Old age pension |
| AGEPENSO | Age at which the person started receiving an old age pension |
| STATRECE | First statutory old age pension receipt with reduction or bonus |
| PENSTYP2 | Disability pension and other disability periodic cash benefit |
| AGEPENSD | Age at which the person started receiving the disability pension or other disability periodic cash benefits |
| PROVTYPE | Financial old age provisions |
| PENSSITU | Situation at beginning of old age pension receipt |
| WSTPREAS | Main reason to stop working with the beginning of the old age pension receipt |
| WCONREAS | Main reason to continue working with old age pension receipt |
| LMREENT | Re-enter the labour market after beginning of old age pension receipt |
| LMENTREAS | Main reason to re-enter the labour market |

Topic

Detailed topic

Variable identifier

Variable name

03c. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 relating to an ad hoc subject)

Job skills

DIGITAL

Time spent on working on digital devices in main or last job

READING

Time spent on reading work-related manuals and technical documents in main or last job

CALCULATE

Time spent on doing relatively complex calculations in main or last job

PHYSICAL

Time spent on doing hard physical work in main or last job

DEXTERITY

Time spent on tasks involving finger dexterity in main or last job

COMMINT

Time spent on interacting with people from the same enterprise or organisation in main or last job

COMMEXT

Time spent on interacting with people from outside the enterprise or organisation in main or last job

GUIDANCE

Time spent on advising, training or teaching other people in main or last job

JOBAUTON

Degree of autonomy on tasks in main or last job

REPETITIVE

Repetitiveness of tasks in main or last job

PROCEDURE

Tasks precisely described by strict procedures in main or last job

03d. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 eight-yearly)

Pension and labour market participation

PENSTYP1

Old age pension

AGEPENSO

Age at which the person started receiving an old age pension

STATRECE

First statutory old age pension receipt with reduction or bonus

PENSTYP2

Disability pension and other disability periodic cash benefit

AGEPENSD

Age at which the person started receiving the disability pension or other disability periodic cash benefits

PROVTYPE

Financial old age provisions

PENSSITU

Situation at beginning of old age pension receipt

WSTPREAS

Main reason to stop working with the beginning of the old age pension receipt

WCONREAS

Main reason to continue working with old age pension receipt

LMREENT

Re-enter the labour market after beginning of old age pension receipt

LMENTREAS

Main reason to re-enter the labour market

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