Employed or inactive? Cross-national differences in coding parental leave beneficiaries in European labour force survey data.

Autor/inn/en	Mikucka, Malgorzata; Valentova, Marie
Titel	Employed or inactive? Cross-national differences in coding parental leave beneficiaries in European labour force survey data. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Beschäftigt oder nicht aktiv? Internationale Unterschiede beim Codieren von Elterngeldbeziehern in europäischen Umfrage-Daten zum Arbeitspotenzial.
Quelle	In: Survey research methods, 7 (2013) 3, S. 169-179 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1864-3361
Schlagwörter	Elternzeit; Fehler; Internationaler Vergleich; Klassifikation
Abstract	"In survey research the parental leave beneficiaries are usually coded as either employed or inactive. An exception is the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS), which includes parental leave among other forms of being employed but temporarily not working. This paper explores classification of parental leave takers in EU-LFS. The authors show that classification rules differ cross-nationally: in some countries parental leave takers are considered inactive, in others - employed but temporarily not working. In particular in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Slovakia the EU-LFS data classify the beneficiaries as inactive. The authors estimate the number of mothers on parental leave in these countries and show that EU-LFS employment rates of women aged 18-40 are biased downwards 2-7 percentage points; for mothers of children aged 0-2 the bias reaches 12-45 percentage points. Their study shows the limited comparability of EU-LFS employment rates and warns about possible bias in cross-national studies." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2014/3