Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/668 of 15 November 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the titles of the variables in the labour force domain for the 2026 ad hoc subject on Digital Platform Employment
Date: 2024-11-15
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, data collection, employment statistics, online platform worker, social statistics, statistical method








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/668


2.4.2025







            COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2025/668
of 15 November 2024
         
supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the titles of the variables in the labour force domain for the 2026 ad hoc subject on Digital Platform Employment
(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 577/982 (1), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


In order to cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, it is necessary to specify the number and title of the variables the labour force domain for the 2026 ad hoc subject on Digital Platform Employment.












(2)


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.












(3)


The Commission has carried out appropriate consultations of national experts as part of the preparation of this delegated Regulation,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The number and titles of the variables for the 2026 ad hoc subject on Digital Platform Employment in the labour force domain shall be as 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, 15 November 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 261 I, 14.10.2019, p. 1.




ANNEX
The number and the title of variables in the labour force domain as regards the set of variables for the 2026 ad hoc subject on Digital Platform Employment.








Topic


Detailed topic


Variable identifier


Variable name










3d.


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







Digital platform employment


DPWORK


Area of activity of the main paid digital platform work in the last 12 months




DPINTENS


Intensity of paid work in digital platform(s) in the last 12 months




DPHRSW


Average number of paid hours worked per month in the last 12 months, in digital platform(s)




DPINC


Share of total digital platform income in relation to total personal income in the last 12 months




DPMR


Main reason for paid digital platform work in the last 12 months




DPASG


Assignments in the main paid digital platform work carried out in the last 12 months




DPREJ


Possibility of rejection of tasks in main paid digital platform work in the last 12 months




DPHSET


Authority in deciding when the working hours are carried out in main paid digital platform work in the last 12 months




DPPSET


Authority in price setting in main paid digital platform work in the last 12 months




DPINSCOV


Access to paid leaves or leave benefits in case of sickness




DPMAIN


Paid digital platform work as main, second or other job in the reference week







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/668/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)