COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2020/1640

of 12 August 2020

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain

(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 577/98 ( 1 ) , and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the labour force domain.

(2) The Commission should establish the number and title of the variables on the ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain.

(3) 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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The number and the titles of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and of the eight-yearly variables for ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain are 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, 12 August 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

ANNEX

Number and title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain

Topic	Detailed topic	Variable identifier	Variable name
03c. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 relating to an ad hoc subject)	Job skills	DIGITAL	Time spent on working on digital devices in main or last job
		READING	Time spent on reading work-related manuals and technical documents in main or last job
		CALCULATE	Time spent on doing relatively complex calculations in main or last job
		PHYSICAL	Time spent on doing hard physical work in main or last job
		DEXTERITY	Time spent on tasks involving finger dexterity in main or last job
		COMMINT	Time spent on interacting with people from the same enterprise or organisation in main or last job
		COMMEXT	Time spent on interacting with people from outside the enterprise or organisation in main or last job
		GUIDANCE	Time spent on advising, training or teaching other people in main or last job
		JOBAUTON	Degree of autonomy on tasks in main or last job
		REPETITIVE	Repetitiveness of tasks in main or last job
		PROCEDURE	Tasks precisely described by strict procedures in main or last job
03d. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 eight-yearly)	Pension and labour market participation	PENSTYP1	Old age pension
		AGEPENSO	Age at which the person started receiving an old age pension
		STATRECE	First statutory old age pension receipt with reduction or bonus
		PENSTYP2	Disability pension and other disability periodic cash benefit
		AGEPENSD	Age at which the person started receiving the disability pension or other disability periodic cash benefits
		PROVTYPE	Financial old age provisions
		PENSSITU	Situation at beginning of old age pension receipt
		WSTPREAS	Main reason to stop working with the beginning of the old age pension receipt
		WCONREAS	Main reason to continue working with old age pension receipt
		LMREENT	Re-enter the labour market after beginning of old age pension receipt
		LMENTREAS	Main reason to re-enter the labour market