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Labour market and income data guide
December 2000
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Survey of Work Arrangements

Description: collects comprehensive data on the work arrangements (for example, schedules and routines) of Canadian workers, as well as information on emerging work arrangements such as flexitime, on-call work, working from home and moonlighting; information on job quality is also collected

Who/what is surveyed: the population aged 15 to 69 years and over residing in Canada, except residents of the Yukon or Northwest Territories, persons living on Indian reserves, institutional residents and members of the Armed Forces

How the data is collected: sub-sample of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), consisting of approximately 27,000 households

Geographic detail: Canada, provinces, and census metropolitan areas

Demographic detail: sex, age, marital status, family relationships

Information collected:
1. weekly and daily work schedules of employees
2. non-typical work arrangements such as shift work, flexitime and work from home, and reasons for arrangement
3. multiple jobholding (and reasons)
4. reasons for self-employment
5. selected indicators of job quality (for example, earnings, non-wage benefits)

Frequency: Irregular supplement to the Labour Force Survey

Sample size: 27,000 households

Data availability: data are available for 1991 and 1995

Reference period: November Labour Force Survey reference period

Response rates: 90% in 1995

What makes the data valuable:
 1. the only major source of data on the work arrangements of Canadians (and reasons)
2. many aspects of job quality of employees
3. motivations for moonlighting and self-employment

Related surveys or data:
 Labour Force Survey; General Social Survey; Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics; Workplace and Employee Survey

Products and services:
1. Work Arrangements in the 1990s (Catalogue no. 71-535-MPB, no. 8)
2. Work Arrangements (Catalogue no. 71-535-MPB, no. 6)
3. Articles in Perspectives on Labour and Income,Catalogue no. 75-001-XPE, quarterly paper edition and Catalogue no. 75-001-XIE, monthly online edition.
4. Microdata files and special tabulations are available on a cost-recovery basis.

Responsible division: Special Surveys


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