Living Standards Measurements Study - Serbia 2002 - 2007

Endnotes, Part 9
1 Data on the size of the active population (employed and
unemployed) provided by LSMS Employment Status module
differs from that in the Demography module as they use
different definitions. The definition in the Demography is
based on the subjective assessment of the respondent, while
the Employment Status module classifies these populations in
accordance with ILO definitions used in LFS.
2 The LFS activity rate represents the proportion of the active
population of the total population between 15 and 65 years of
age.
3 Effective dependency rate represents the relation between the
not working population (aged 15+) and the number of
employed. The population that does not work consists of the
unemployed and inactive.
4 Document of the World Bank, Report No. 36576-YU
5 See: The Law on Employment and Insurance in Case of
Unemployment of 2003.
6 The employment rate represents the percentage employed of
the total working age (15-64) population.
7 Source: RSO, National Accounts System of the Republic of
Serbia 1997-2004
8 The unemployment rate is the percentage of unemployed
people in the total number of active population of working
age.
9 Long-term unemployment rate is the percentage of the
unemployed in the active population between 15 and 74 years
of age, who have been looking for a job for a period of longer
than a year.
10 The unemployed can seek for work using several methods
simutaneously so the sum is not 100.
11 Percentages do not sum to 100 because: 1) a person can have
several sources of income 2) some respondents refuse to give
income data.
12 The Cost of Living Index was 170.46 in the period from May
2002-May 2007
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