Involuntary Temporary Employment Rates from the EU Labour Force Survey

Data from the EU Labour Force Survey (LFS) measures the percentage of employees in involuntary temporary work. The indicator represents employees who could not find a permanent job or whose job is only available with a temporary contract. It is published by Eurostat and was last updated on 2026-04-17.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in precarious employment based on the involuntary temporary employment rate.
• Compare labor market conditions across EU member states based on the survey-derived indicator.
• Model the relationship between economic cycles and involuntary temporary work based on the LFS data.
• Assess the effectiveness of labor policies aimed at reducing involuntary temporary contracts.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative EU Labour Force Survey (LFS).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and TSV.
• Last updated on 2026-04-17, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and methodological bias inherent to the EU LFS.

Provenance

Source

Eurostat

Collection Method

EU Labour Force Survey (LFS)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 00:00:00

Geography

European Union