Quarterly survey on job vacancies and hours worked (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2018

General characteristics  
Contents:
Inward and outward occupational flows; Hours of short-time allowance; Worked and paid hours; Working position as employees; Vacancies
Analysis units:
Enterprises with employees of the private non agricultural sector, excluding social and personal services
Periodicity:
Quarterly
EU legislation:
Yes

Survey design  
Type:
Stratified random sampling

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Enterprises with employees of the private non agricultural sector, excluding social and personal services
Data collection mode:
Self-administered data collection via electronic transmission
Total units:
25802 (annual average)
Respondents:
15908 (annual average)

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results; Follow-ups of nonrespondent units/bodies
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Methods to estimate the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey; Control of influential unit data, strongly contributing to computation of aggregates

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
I.Stat
Other data bases:
None
Press releases:
Labour market
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
74 days on average