Friday, September 8, 2006

Labour Force Survey Longitudinal Data

Question

A student wants to know if the LFS data is available in a way that would allow identification of the households across the survey months. It sounds to me as though she wants longitudinal LFS data; is this even possible (outside of using the SLID files in the RDCs)?

Answers

1. The variables on the PUMF does not allow for for this. If it could be done, and if it was releasable it would have to come from the master file.

2. Indeed the LFS files are not longitudinal and SLID would be the only option.

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