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Pomiar statusu osób na rynku pracy w Narodowym Spisie Powszechnym Ludności i Mieszkań 2011
Measurement of the labour market status in the National Population and Housing Census 2011

Author(s): Paweł Lańduch
Subject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: statistical questionnaire; measurement error; index of consistency; latent class

Summary/Abstract: Multimeasurement of the person’s labour market status based on the statistical questionnaire may be used for the assessment of its quality with quantitative methods. In order to evaluate the measurement quality we employ among others, remeasurement or multiple measurements for a random sample of units. Based on the data from the National Population and Housing Census 2011, this article presents appliance of the Cohen’s coefficient of contingency and Latent Class Analysis for the assessment of respondent’s labour force classification. The questions in the census questionnaire enable the evaluation of persons’ labour market status according to International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation as well as give an opportunity to respondent’s self-assessment. The article focuses on the issue of results’ consistency obtained from these two types of information in the part of the Census based on a random sample. Many other aspects relating to random and non-random errors were omitted in the research.

  • Issue Year: 62/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 98-111
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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