Commission Regulation (EC) No 1578/2000 of 19 July 2000 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample survey in the Community concerning the specification of the 2001 ad hoc module on length and patterns of working time
Date: 2000-07-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, arrangement of working time, sample survey, statistical method, working population, working time

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1578/2000

of 19 July 2000

implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 on the organisation of a labour force sample
survey in the Community concerning the specification of the 2001 ad hoc module on length and
patterns of working time

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 (1) of 9
force sample survey in the
March 1998, on a labour
Community, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1575/2000 (2) and in particular Article 4(2), thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
577/98 the detailed list of information to be collected in
an ad hoc module shall be drawn at least 12 months
before the beginning of the reference period for that
module.

In order to monitor the Employment Guidelines, the
Commission needs
statistics on flexible
structural
working time arrangements and types of employment
contract.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Statistical
accordance with
Programme Committee established by Council Decision
89/382/EEC, Euratom (3),

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The detailed list of information to be collected in the year 2001
ad hoc module is laid down in the Annex to the present
Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 19 July 2000.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 77, 14.3.1998, p. 3.
(2) See page 16 of this Official Journal.

(3) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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ANNEX

LABOUR FORCE SURVEY

Specification of the 2001 ad hoc module on Length and patterns of working time

1. Member States and regions concerned: all

2. The data are collected only for the main job

3. The variables will be coded as follows:

Column

Code

Description

Filters/remarks

209

210

211

Determines own work methods and schedule
(optional for Germany)

V26 ≠ 4, 9, blank

Determines own work methods and schedule

Subordinate relationship

Work for single firm or customer
(optional for Germany)

Works regularly for 1 firm or customer

Works regularly for >1 firm or customer

V26 ≠ 4, 9, blank

Termination of contract
(optional for Germany)

V26 ≠ 4, 9, blank

Producer unit ceases to exist when product or services
provided

Producer unit continues to exist

1

0

1

0

1

0

212—213

Overtime hours in reference week

V26 = 3

…

Number of hours

214—215

Paid overtime hours in the reference week

V214-215 < 212-213

Number of paid overtime hours

204

Shift work

V26 = 3

216

1

3

1

2

3

4

5

6

Person does shift work

Person does not do shift work

Shift work patterns

V204 = 1

Continuous shift work, usually four shift system

Semi-continuous shift work, usually three shift system

Two shift system: double day shift

Sometimes night, sometimes day shift

Fixed assignment to a given shift

Other type of shift

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Column

Code

Description

Filters/remarks

217

Variable working times

V26 = 3

218

219

220

221

1

2

3

4

5

6

1

0

1

2

0

1

2

1

2

9

Fixed start and end of a working day

Annualised hours contract

Working time banking

Working times by mutual agreement

Determines own work schedule (no formal boundaries)

Other

Compensation of credit hours

V217 = 3

Can use credit hours to take full days or weeks off
(besides to take hours off)

Can not use credit hours to take full days or weeks off

Min-max contracts, on-call work or zero-hours
contracts
(optional for Germany)

V26 = 3

A minimum number of hours is agreed by contract but
the number of hours actually worked may exceed this
minimum and they are not paid at overtime rate

reports to work only when called

other

Reason for shift work

V204 = 1

Shift work was the type of job person was looking for
(personal

initiative)

Shift work was not the type of job person was looking
for but no similar job available without shift work
(similar within this occupation or industry)

Reason to work this working time arrangement
(optional for Germany)

These working time arrangements were the type of job
person was looking for (personal

initiative)

These working time arrangements were not the type of
job person was looking for but no similar job available
(similar
with ordinary working time arrangements
within this occupation of industry)

V217 = 2, 3 or V219 = 1, 2

Not applicable

V209. V221

‘blank’

No answer

4. The variables on evening work, night work, Saturday and Sunday work which appear as columns 205 to 208 in the
Annex to Regulation (EC) 1575/2000 concerning the codification to be used for data transmission from 2001
onwards must be surveyed in 2001 for the same reference period as the ad hoc module referred to in Article 1 of the
present Regulation.