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 577/981, 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,

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