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The European Union Labour Force Survey is a rotating random sample survey covering the population in private households in currently 34 European countries. The main aim of the LFS is to provide comparable information on employed, unemployed and inactive persons of working age (15 years and above) in European countries. The definitions of employment and unemployment used in the LFS closely follow the International Labour Organisations guidelines. Common classifications used are: NACE , ISCO, ISCED, NUTS.
Core topics of the LFS are demographic background; labour status; employment characteristics of the main job; hours worked; second job; previous work experience of person not in employment; search for employment; methods used during previous four weeks to find work; main labour status; education and training; situation one year before survey; income; atypical work.
Since 1999 the LFS also includes so called 'ad hoc modules' on a yearly but rotating basis.

EU-LFS 2004 contains the Module on Work organisation and working time arrangements.
The study group consisted of employed persons, the self-employed, employees and unpaid family workers.

EU-LFS 2005 contains the Module on Reconciliation between work and family life.
According to the policy needs and taking into account the constraint of 11 variables for the module, the aims and the structure of the module are the following. The first aim is to establish how far persons participate in the labour force as they would wish, and where they are unable to do so, whether the reasons are connected with a lack of suitable care services for children and dependant persons. The second aim is to analyse the degree of flexibility offered at work in terms of reconciliation with family life. The third aim is to estimate how far leave of absence is taken (as specified in Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3.6.1996, OJ L145) .
The target group consisted of all persons aged between 15 and 64 (16-64 for ES, UK and NO).

EU-LFS 2008 contains the Module on the Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants. The aim of the module is to get a comprehensive and comparable set of data on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants in order to monitor progress towards the common objectives of the European Employment Strategy and of the Social Inclusion Process.
The target group is composed of all persons aged 15 to 74 (or all persons aged 16 to 74 for the countries where the target group for the core LFS is from 16 years old).

EU-LFS 2010 contains the Module on Reconciliation between work and family life. The first aim is to establish how far persons participate in the labour force as they wish and if not, whether the reasons are connected with a lack of suitable care services for children and dependant persons. The second aim is to analyse the degree of flexibility offered at work in terms of reconciliation with family life. The third aim is to estimate how often career breaks occur and how far leave of absence is taken.
Target population: persons aged 15-64 years old

EU-LFS 2018 contains the Ad hoc module on Reconciliation between work and family life.

EU-LFS 2020 contains the Ad hoc module on accidents at work and work related health problems.

EU-LFS 2021 contains thead hoc module on labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants.

EU-SILC 2009 contains the 2009 Module on material deprivation. The 2009 Module consists on thirty variables to be asked at household level (six of them optional) and seven variables to be asked at personal level.
The 2009 module variables relate to three different types of units:1. Household: The variables relating to housing, the environment, financial stress and durables (except possession of mobile phones) are asked at household level and refer to the household as a whole. 2. Individual: Information on the possession of a mobile phone, basic needs, unmet needs as well as leisure and social activities in the category "adult items" must be provided for each current household member, or, if applicable, for all selected respondents, aged 16 and over. 3. Child: Children's items relate to all household members aged under 16 to be compatible with the data collection defined in the EU-SILC Framework Regulation. The questions must be answered by the household respondent for the whole group of children aged under 16. If at least one child does not have the item in question, the whole group of children in the household is assumed not to have the item.

EU-LFS 2007 contains the Module on Accidents at work and work-related health problems. The aim of this ad hoc module is to provide a description of the occurrence of accidents at work and of non-accidental work-related illhealth and in particular.
The target population for the ad hoc module consists of persons aged 15 or more. For accidents at work the additional filter is on everybody who is working or has worked during the past 12 months. For work-related health problems the filter is on everybody who is working or has worked previously. Finally, the filter for hazardous exposure is on everybody who is working at the time of the survey administration.

The European Union Labour Force Survey is a rotating random sample survey covering the population in private households in currently 34 European countries. The main aim of the LFS is to provide comparable information on employed, unemployed and inactive persons of working age (15 years and above) in European countries. The definitions of employment and unemployment used in the LFS closely follow the International Labour Organisations guidelines. Common classifications used are: NACE , ISCO, ISCED, NUTS.
Core topics of the LFS are demographic background; labour status; employment characteristics of the main job; hours worked; second job; previous work experience of person not in employment; search for employment; methods used during previous four weeks to find work; main labour status; education and training; situation one year before survey; income; atypical work.
Since 1999 the LFS also includes so called 'ad hoc modules' on a yearly but rotating basis.

The European Union Labour Force Survey is a rotating random sample survey covering the population in private households in currently 34 European countries. The main aim of the LFS is to provide comparable information on employed, unemployed and inactive persons of working age (15 years and above) in European countries. The definitions of employment and unemployment used in the LFS closely follow the International Labour Organisations guidelines. Common classifications used are: NACE , ISCO, ISCED, NUTS.
Core topics of the LFS are demographic background; labour status; employment characteristics of the main job; hours worked; second job; previous work experience of person not in employment; search for employment; methods used during previous four weeks to find work; main labour status; education and training; situation one year before survey; income; atypical work.
Since 1999 the LFS also includes so called 'ad hoc modules' on a yearly but rotating basis.

EU-SILC 2017 contains the 2017 module on Health and children's health.

The European Union Labour Force Survey is a rotating random sample survey covering the population in private households in currently 34 European countries. The main aim of the LFS is to provide comparable information on employed, unemployed and inactive persons of working age (15 years and above) in European countries. The definitions of employment and unemployment used in the LFS closely follow the International Labour Organisations guidelines. Common classifications used are: NACE , ISCO, ISCED, NUTS.
Core topics of the LFS are demographic background; labour status; employment characteristics of the main job; hours worked; second job; previous work experience of person not in employment; search for employment; methods used during previous four weeks to find work; main labour status; education and training; situation one year before survey; income; atypical work.
Since 1999 the LFS also includes so called 'ad hoc modules' on a yearly but rotating basis.

EU-LFS 2003 contains the Module on Lifelong learning.
Target Population: Everybody aged 15 years or more.