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European Union Labour Force Survey 2024

EU-LFS 2024 contains the ad hoc module on Young people on the labour market.

Geographical Coverage

The EU-LFS 2024 microdata for scientific purposes covers all 27 EU Member States as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

Datasets availability table and release calendar (Eurostat)

Time Period Covered

The EU-LFS "is designed as a continuous quarterly survey with interviews spread uniformly over all weeks of a quarter. Each reference week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. The first week of a year or quarter is defined as the week that includes the first Thursday of the year or the quarter. All countries conduct the LFS as a continuous survey." (Eurostat (2020): Quality report of the European Union Labour Force Survey 2018, p. 7)

yearly:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/203647/22778448/EU+LFS+DOI+2025.pdf

EU-LFS Ad-hoc Modules

Eurostat (2025): EU Labour Force Survey Database User Guide (Version: December 2025)

Eurostat (2021): EU Labour Force Survey. Explanatory Notes (to be applied from 2021Q1 onwards).